Open Data is one of the many concepts promoted by the open science movement which seeks to increase ease of access to scientific knowledge. Within an Open Data framework, new scientific data would be freely available to other scientists who could utilize it in their own research regardless of their organizational affiliations and free from accompanying fees, which are common in scientific journals. While a Kantian outlook would consider such sharing practices to be immoral, a utilitarian perspective might find the increased efficiency in scientific innovation to be sufficient justification…