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by toomuchtodo 3692 days ago
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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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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