Ah, the ever-difficult car analogy. I'm not sure it holds water here, as you're talking about a report on the research, not the research itself. No publisher claims a patent on the research itself or tries to charge a researcher for continuing to work on the same subject. Furthermore, many publishers grant the author full copyright and require no payment or permission for re-use of the material in the published paper. Regardless, you, as the author, have a pdf of your own paper. You don't need to pay rent to access it.

I get what you're saying here, but the analogy is strained. If you took your car to the mechanic, paid to have it fixed, then if there were other people who wanted to know how the car was fixed, but the mechanic charged a fee to access that information, that might get closer to the current situation. But it's still a stretch.Â  And issues of copyright, access and IP never translate very cleanly to real-world analogies.