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We are in the midst of an information arms race with multiple sides battling for larger shares of the global knowledge pool. The records of scholarly communication, the foundations of an informed, democratic society, are at risk. Recent legal literature heightens our awareness of “the enclosure of the intellectual public domain” through new patent and copyright laws.1 There are a number of issues concerning the conflicts and contradictions between new laws and new technologies.2 Information that used to be “free” is now increasingly being privatized, monitored, encrypted, and restricted.