you and your readers may be interested in an open access article in which I have listed all the pros and cons of data-sharing in biomedical academia as well as proposed a solution: Blood, Sweat and Grants: Honest Jim and the European Database Right. The url is http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fss/journals/gsp/docs/volume1number2/jbgspvol1no22005.pdf. It is also published as a chapter in my book: Blood, Genes & Data: Naturally Yours?