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I think that one is pretty clear- you are providing the phrase "notorious scoundrel", so you are the provider of that information.

A subtler one is a site that only surfaced snippets about a subject. It wouldn't be that hard to write an algorithm that surfaces only negative segments about a subject, or to automatically quote out of context.

Surely that is transformative, but the information is still coming from the original authors.

Seems like that part might be untested law.




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