In reference to the open data argument I think that can be considered the gift and the curse. Open data would serve as a positive because it would give everyone access to the information they need. For example a young scientist testing out his/her new hypothesis for an experiment would be able to access all the previous research in whatever field he/she was in. This makes advancing civilization as a whole much more easier. Also if a student such as myself is doing a paper I’d easily be able to access scholarly works without all of the financial hassle. The downside to this is that with all the reproducing of data it would be hard for the original author to receive credit because it’d be hard to distinguish who’s the original. Also with all this data going around it’d give people less of an incentive to create something because they know someone(s) going to take it and claim it as there’s. I think what we need is semi open data, data would be open but would have basic copyright restrictions intended to give the original author credit.