Sonny Bono Memorial Collection

The Internet Archive believes works in the Sonny Bono Memorial Collection are eligible for free public access under 17 U.S.C. Section 108(h), which allows for non-profit libraries and archives to reproduce, distribute, display and publicly perform a work if it meets the criteria of: a published work in the last twenty years of copyright, and after conducting a reasonable investigation, no commercial exploitation or copy at a reasonable price could be found. This provision was enacted at the same time as the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act.

Namesake
Salvatore Phillip "Sonny" Bono was an American singer-songwriter and politician. After his passing in 1998, the Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998, named in his honor. Sonny Bono's involvement is often used by critics of modern American copyright law, to prove is process was tainted by vested intresses.