I'm not sure they understand ...

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... that work-product belongs to who paid for it:

This is about access to peer-reviewed scientific information—research that we pay for with our tax money. If this bill passes, Americans who want to read the results of federally funded research will have to buy access to each journal article individually—at a cost of $15 or $30 apiece. In other words, as the New York Times recently noted, taxpayers who already paid for the research would have to pay again to read the results.

I'm not a lawyer, so I can't really speak to work-product rules but the way I see it is if the gubmint paid for it, I need to be able to see it.

I'd even extend the idea that if the government pays, then all the raw data, the processes and everything else gets put online for downloading.

Only sounds fair to me ...

pm