They can still profit in a vast majority of circumstances.
Rosen 16 – former Professor of Law at Georgetown University, Director of the Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice Section at the American Bar Association, J.D. from Harvard Law School.
Jeffrey A. Rosen, “Report to the House of Delegates,” American Bar Association, https://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/administrative/house_of_delegates/ebook-of-resolutions-with-reports/2016_hod_annual_meeting_electronic_report_book1.pdf#page=403
Furthe1more, as noted, the public access required by the legislation would apply only to the portions of a standard that have been incorporated by reference into a regulation. This limitation is another accommodation to the interests of SDOs. To the extent that those organizations have customers that are willing to purchase an entire copy of a given standard, or other products or services derived from it, the organizations would continue to be able to rely on profits from sales to such customers to recoup costs of creating the standards.