Legislators should remember who pays their salaries and to whom they are responsible. If taxpayers fund any part of a research activity then (a) no patents or copyrights should issue as a result, and (b) all results and unprocessed data should be available freely, similarly funded by the taxpayers. If the researchers and their sponsoring organizations don’t like the bargain, they should seek funding from non-public sources. — tddial, Elsevier Abandons Anti-Open Access Bill