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04/01/17 10:34 PM

#111088 RE: kabunushi #111082

Just for the record Senti did not "force" anybody to pay pacermonitor. I for one very much appreciated her hard work and for releasing the material she did onto the board.
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04/01/17 10:39 PM

#111089 RE: kabunushi #111082

Just FYI.

I didn't download from PacerMonitor, I downloaded it directly from Pacer.gov, which is the court systems official documentation system. Think SEC Edgar, you can buy those docs from private companies that suggest that they are organizing something and you're paying for their organizing, or you can just go to SEC Edgar, and no one owns those documents. It's public record. You do pay a tiny bit for accessing and searching and being able to download, but the docs don't belong to anyone. Complaints don't belong to any company anymore than SEC documents belong to the companies that publish them on other systems or to the companies that file them. But if they do something to them, then well, they might come after you because you have a file with their logo embedded.

If you download docs from Lexis / Nexis, and they say Nexis / Lexis all over, with the logo, you might have to worry. Then they've branded it and it's copyrighted as something more than just the docs that youve accessed. But the docs, by themselves, without processing, are just court documents and the public owns those documents.

And my own software did the conversion from scanned PDF to text.

These are from the Federal court system's case document system. They are not private documents.