Commercial Pressures
- Presumably NASA & other govтАЩt agencies will declare their data to be public domain (but NB Landsat!)
- What about the business manager of a small fund-starved university?
- What about a small developing country?
- What about individuals?
- Science has a tradition of open scrutiny and access
- Problem: we will not have access to data used by an author
- We wonтАЩt be able to check or reproduce an authorтАЩs results
Almost certainly, at least some astronomical data will be protected
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