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There is no fee at all. Copyright doesn't require registration, and wouldn't under this proposed law, either, as far as I can see. To avoid having your works orphaned, simply be sure that anywhere you post them, you also post your contact info. If you make prints, put your contact info on the back or something. Don't most photographers do this anyway?
Nowhere in the proposed law does it say that artists would have to pay to register their work. My bet is that Google will have a similar-image search function available within the next couple of years, and that indexing will be free (as usual) and searches will be paid for by advertisement, though there might be paid ad-free versions.
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