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Sep 1 2006, 02:38 PM
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Another point of view is that since Congress paid for the data, Congress can decide what can and can't be done with it. For example, they could simply require any mission that used public money must promptly (say, within 48 hours) post all raw data. That'd be the end of it. OR, they could decide that it would better serve the public interest to give designated research teams sole access to that data for 6 months (under the same Constitutional authority that lets us have patents -- the key is "temporary" restrictions), in which case it really would be a crime for anyone else to use it without permission.
As far as I know, though, Congress hasn't looked at this issue, since it simply didn't exist before the Internet. Frankly, I think the "open data" approach is far the better one. I can't believe scientists would lose interest in any future space missions if they knew they had to make the data public. And, given the creativity of the public that DOES want to look at this stuff, it seems very much in the public interest to display it ASAP. --Greg |
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