-- I really think this is an important question and, as Justice O'Connor points out, if we have to ask what's the most plausible explanation for this rule, to reward existing vested interest or to stimulate former new works, it seems to me that it's probably the former.
Does this next sentence follow, given the preceding text?
O’Connor is not a judge 

Pick from: (a). Yes; (b). It's impossible to say; (c). No;
(c).