This is from a government record I randomly ran across today:
“Document(s)” is used in the broadest sense of the word and shall mean all original written, printed, typed, recorded, or graphic matter whatsoever, however produced or reproduced, of every kind, nature, and description, and all non-identical copies of both sides thereof, including, but not limited to, papers, letters, memoranda, correspondence, communications, electronic mail (e-mail) messages (existing in hard copy and/or in electronic storage), faxes, mailgrams, telegrams, cables, telex messages, notes, annotations, working papers, drafts, minutes, records, audio and video recordings, data, databases, other information bases, summaries, charts, tables, graphics, other visual displays, photographs, statements, interviews, opinions, reports, newspaper articles, studies, analyses, evaluations, interpretations, contracts, agreements, jottings, agendas, bulletins, notices, announcements, instructions, blueprints, drawings, as-builts, changes, manuals, publications, work schedules, journals, statistical data, desk, portable and computer calendars, appointment books, diaries, travel reports, lists, tabulations, computer printouts, data processing program libraries, data processing inputs and outputs, microfilms, microfiches, statements for services, resolutions, financial statements, governmental records, business records, personnel records, work orders, pleadings, discovery in any form, affidavits, motions, responses to discovery, all transcripts, administrative filings and all mechanical, magnetic, photographic and electronic records or recordings of any kind, including any storage media associated with computers, including, but not limited to, information on hard drives, floppy disks, backup tapes, and zip drives, electronic communications, including but not limited to, the Internet and shall include any drafts or revisions pertaining to any of the foregoing.
I guess that should cover things. It's from a public record, so feel free to appropriate it if you happen to need an expansive definition of document.
...all lines of code and coding, sticky notes, all markings on erasable boards, writings done with invisible ink, redline corrections, all ones and zeros including all quantum states of all particles of all things used ad infinitum of every entanglement used to calculate or communicate...
--or whispered into the ear of a homing pigeon.
but trump mentally declared that anything regarding the electoral college was absolutely *not a government document, and alito, thomas, kavanaugh, et al. totally and unequivocally support that conclusion when trump does it, but this is only to be applicable to the current situation and definitely not supportable if the *wrong sort of politician might try to rely on this decision in the future
so suck.on.that america
How about etched rather than written, or clay tablets?-)
Sure tries to "speak for itself" - I doubt that even Alexanfdra Petri of The Washington Post could do much to satirize this definition. Whew!
According to Wikipedia, a document is "the fifth studio album by American rock band R.E.M., released on August 31, 1987, by I.R.S. Records."
Doesn't include idle musings so I guess we're all safe here unless we try to type it in --oh, damn.
Looks like something written by a patent attorney
As Gertrude Stein wrote, document is a document is a document is a document.
This gives you an idea of the various "not-a-document" pleas that were accepted by various courts. Lawyers are pretty clever, and sometime judges let them get away with it.