Arguments for Open Data
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_data#Arguments_for_and_against_open_data- "Data belongs to the human race" (e.g. medical science)
- Public money was used to fund the work http://www.publictechnology.net/sector/central-gov/dispatch-box-road-open-data
- It was created by a government institution
- Ideas cannot be copyrighted
- Sponsors of research do not get full value unless the resulting data are freely available
- Restrictions on data re-use create an anticommons
- Data is required for communal human activities (maps)
- The rate of discovery is accelerated by better access to data http://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/dsj/6/0/6_S116/_article
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