I've been working on legislative data for 15 years now, on open source scrapers with OpenStates and running a commercial product targeted at professionals (competitor to those in the article). We tried for years with OpenStates to run a free legislative tracking product before eventually having it partner with a commercial provider who was willing to contribute the resources to keep it alive and help out with the ope…
1) Government authored/sponsored materials are not considered “published” until they are available in both human and machine readable digital formats at no cost to the reader.
2) Publications of such materials
2.1) must not keep a record of individual usage beyond that technically necessary to provide access to the publication
2.2) not withstanding 2.1, take reasonable steps to secure digital publications from abuse that creates an undue administrative burden