Why so ? Preservation is not free for private for profit companies, why do we expect it to be ? People should get access to older publications for free absolut

Why so ? Preservation is not free for private for profit companies, why do we expect it to be ? People should get access to older publications for free absolutely, but that is what museums, libraries and copyright law is for . The taxpayer can better fund preservation. A modern government mandated archive like libraries do for papers of record is quite realistic and linked to copyright protection. There is no reason for IP protection to be free , patents are not , trademarks are not , they all require filing fees there is no reason copyright can’t work the same way.