This has nothing to do with research funding. Money paid for access to papers goes to publishers. It's not like in music where the publishers get the lions' sh

This has nothing to do with research funding. Money paid for access to papers goes to publishers. It's not like in music where the publishers get the lions' share and the artists get a fraction of that - in academic pubishing, it's 100% to publishers and not a single cent ever of the proceeds goes to authors or reviewers or to funding science programs. And "closed access science" produced by USA is still available to researchers in every country despite the paywalls, all the serious universities have arranged subscriptions, it's just that currently they are paying a large fee to unnecessary middlemen (e.g. Netherlands' Elsevier) for that privilege.