Cory Doctorow on Nostr: Publicly funded work is presumptively in the public domain, from NASA R&D to the ...
Publicly funded work is presumptively in the public domain, from NASA R&D to the photos that park rangers shoot of our national parks. The public pays to produce this work, so it should belong to the public, right?
That was the deal - until Congress passed the #BayhDoleAct in 1980. Under Bayh-Dole, government-funded inventions *are* given away - to for-profit corporations, who get to charge us whatever they want to access the things we paid to make.
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