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Re:OkCupid Study Reveals the Perils of Big-Data Science by toomuchtodo on Monday May 16, 2016 @04:03PM (#11709171)
I don't believe user profiles are going to be considered facts, but creative works. OKCupid's corpus as a whole would be protected as a database, but the individual profiles would not be considered facts.
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Re:OkCupid Study Reveals the Perils of Big-Data Science by pbhjpbhj on Tuesday May 17, 2016 @03:10PM (#11716424)
The individual fields describing the character of the users are surely factual type data, even if fictional they don't amount to creative works. A mugshot (face image) is not likely to be considered sufficiently creative to amount to a work of itself, and that's the most creative component of a persons profile.
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Re:OkCupid Study Reveals the Perils of Big-Data Science by toomuchtodo on Tuesday May 17, 2016 @09:14PM (#11718999)
Your opinion and a court's opinion are substantially different.
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