IIUC this has long been an issue in archeology: for example, a small committee of scholars had exclusive access to the Dead Sea Scrolls for decades, and the sch

IIUC this has long been an issue in archeology: for example, a small committee of scholars had exclusive access to the Dead Sea Scrolls for decades, and the scholars dragged their feet on publishing the complete text, until someone reverse-engineered much of the text from a concordance.