All government-funded research belongs in the public domain

Earlier this year, William Smith writes at the Pioneer Institute, "[t]he federal government announced the formation of a working group to 'develop a framework for the implementation of the march-in provision of the Bayh-Dole Act.'" Smith thinks it's a bad idea – the title of his piece is "University Science Research Is Under Threat."

The very simplified version: Under the 1980 Bayh-Dole Act, unive...