Legal filings are part of the record of court proceedings, and as such should be in the public domain as part of the public record.
If someone wants to make a compilation of matters of public record and charge a fee for access to that compilation, there should be no impediment to that, but the records themselves, as with all public documents, should not be subject to any restriction other than those normally required of public documents, i.e., reasonably copying fees, which in the internet age should approach zero.
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Public Record
Legal filings are part of the record of court proceedings, and as such should be in the public domain as part of the public record.
If someone wants to make a compilation of matters of public record and charge a fee for access to that compilation, there should be no impediment to that, but the records themselves, as with all public documents, should not be subject to any restriction other than those normally required of public documents, i.e., reasonably copying fees, which in the internet age should approach zero.