%0 Journal Article %T Whose Commons? Data Protection as a Legal Limit of Open Science %A Bartha M. Knoppers %A Mark Phillips %J The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics %@ 1748-720X %D 2019 %R 10.1177/1073110519840489 %X Open science has recently gained traction as establishment institutions have come on-side and thrown their weight behind the movement and initiatives aimed at creation of information commons. At the same time, the movement's traditional insistence on unrestricted dissemination and reuse of all information of scientific value has been challenged by the movement to strengthen protection of personal data. This article assesses tensions between open science and data protection, with a focus on the GDPR %U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1073110519840489