SMPTE made its full catalog of published Standards freely available, including Recommended Practices, Engineering Guidelines, Registered Disclosure Documents, and future releases accessible through pub.smpte.org. President Rich Welsh said the society did not make the decision lightly. Member and partner feedback, plus pressure around IP workflows, AI authenticity, and content provenance, pushed leadership to drop access fees that had helped fund the standards program. Recent modernization work includes GitHub-based version control, structured HTML authoring, and an integrated publishing pipeline for review and release. Engineers troubleshooting ST 2110 handshakes or IMF deliveries can read normative text without a corporate library license. Standards managers should still pin document revisions in project manifests - open access makes it easier for two teams to cite different amendment dates on the same spec.