Research Works Act attacks data dissemination too

"Sponsors and supporters of the Research Works Act keep claiming that it doesn’t cover “the raw data generated by government-funded research” [1] or “raw data outputs” [2]. That’s not what I get from a direct reading of the bill....This doesn’t say it excludes raw data. It says some complicated thing about it excluding raw data that is routinely required to be submitted directly to the funding agency. There aren’t many NIH or NSF program officers I know who want me to routinely sent them all my raw data, and many data repositories are not hosted at funding agencies. This means that practically all “published” research datasets (including those in tables, supplementary information, and presumably non-federal data archives) are subject to the Research Works Act. On purpose or because of poor sentence structure? I don’t know, but the effect is the same...."