On: What Could Have Entered the Public Domain on Janua...

[JoshTriplett]

Easy framing to get around that: "Only the less creative ones, who prefer to sit on their old works rather than making new ones."

[tempodox → JoshTriplett]

And what stops them from adding those costs to the price of whatever they're currently selling?

[JoshTriplett → tempodox]

Making them large enough to make that impossible and uneconomical compared to making new works. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16046563