RE: Legal briefs, pleadings and Memoranda.

I am not sure that every document which may be a public record is automatically placed into the public domain. Public records laws are not intended to strip the copyright off all documents, otherwise books and periodicals in state libraries would become fair game.

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> Are briefs filed in court any different from other pleadings which 

> are (I think) public records and therefore part of the public domain?

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