Barney Frank: “On this question about whether or not this is a compromise, and the gentleman has mentioned our late colleague Sonny…”

“On this question about whether or not this is a compromise, and the gentleman has mentioned our late colleague Sonny Bono who worked so hard for this, he frankly thought this went much too far. He wrote a letter to the Registrar of Copyrights expressing his opposition to the notion of giving away on the square footage that he felt it might undermine our international negotiating process. I say that simply for those who would deny that this is a genuine compromise. There were people who were strong supporters of the original bill who thought it went too far. Mr. Chairman, I am supportive of it because I think it is a reasonable approach, but I do want to validate the point he made. This is a genuine compromise. Mr. Bono in fact thought it had gone too far.”