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by alaskanloops 3680 days ago
This is one of those things thats just so common sense, its hard to imagine a solid argument against it.

Hopefully it will encourage the US to follow, although I'm sure publishers will dig their feet in and make up some bullsh*t reason why it would be a bad move.

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>This is one of those things thats just so common sense

It really is, the public paid for the research, it rightfully belongs to the public.

Except it hasn't been like that for decades.
What happened? Where/why/how did it change?