Commercial Pressures

• Presumably NASA & other gov’t 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?

Almost certainly, at least some astronomical data will be protected

• Science has a tradition of open scrutiny and access
• Problem: we will not have access to data used by an author
• We won’t be able to check or reproduce an author’s results