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Regarding the situation with information communicated under NDA or anything similar I think the vast majority of us are clear about this. Unless you happen to also be under NDA (which I am) you legally should not be a recipient of the information. End of. I don't think a discussion on this level is worth the effort. The legal aspect is relatively clear. There are at least two videos of the CLA 2015 meeting which probably fall into this category. The easiest point to address is the idea that non-CLAs will somehow not be capable of properly understanding the messages to be communicated by such videos. On a purely technical note, I don't think the level of the presentations is such that non-CLAs would have a hard a time identifying, following and understanding the true idea behind them at all. Full disclosure: I detest elitism. The argument from authority does not sit well with me. It makes one side angry and the other side blind. If the CLAs wish to pursue this route than I see dark times ahead for the community. If anything the group should probably be more transparent than any other, setting the example for others to follow. Information has no ego. With many internationally reknowned universities offering much of their courses online for free, the approach to sharing knowledge seems to be changing. It's now quite possible to watch a 17-video series on how the physiology of the brain affects our every day experinces and how these developments were evolved and what consequences they have for psychiatric disorders. For free. Do these universities worry if the people watching them can understand the information? No, they don't. Why should we?