In this paper, we chronicle key US legislative initiatives during the post–World War II history of public policy related to the ownership of publicly funded research-based knowledge. Our motivation for recording this history is the observation that many scholars, who are appropriately concerned about taxpayer rights, have argued for the need for public policy to clarify ownership of the publicness or openness of publicly funded research results when in fact such public policies have long been in place. We conclude this historical trace with the proposition that if the past is prologue to the future, one might expect future administrations to continue to acknowledge the importance of public access to findings from publicly funded research, be that research having occurred in federal laboratories, universities, or private-sector organizations.

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公共资助研究的公开性

在本文中，我们记录了二战后与公共资助研究型知识所有权相关的公共政策历史中美国的主要立法举措。我们记录这段历史的动机是观察到，许多适当关注纳税人权利的学者认为，公共政策需要明确公共资助研究成果的公共性或开放性的所有权，而事实上这种公共政策早已已经到位。我们的结论是，如果过去是未来的序幕，那么我们可能会期望未来的政府继续承认公众获取公共资助研究结果的重要性，因为研究已经发生在联邦实验室、大学、或私营部门组织。