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postjock··on Ask HN: Do Startup Databases have copyright over the data on their platform?
The quoted text indicates only that they parse out "structured data elements." The test for Copyright infringement is a four prong test.

1. Access to the original work 2. Copying of the original work 3. Substantial similarity between the oriinal and the copy 4. Damages

If you were to compare select elements from the database and compare each element to the work from which is was scraped, would you find that there is a substantial similarity between the data elemment and the work in its entirety from which the element was obtained? If the answer is NO, then the tjhird priong of the test fails, and there is no infringement.

postjock··on FeelBetterBot wants you to feel better
Try using a name that doesn't include the word "BOT" in it. Given that your account is suspended repeatedly, and that you alter the frequency of the tweets, consider what you haven't yet changed.

If changing the name works (i.e. create a new account), then you have something else to write about: Twitter doesn't care if you spam people with tweets, as long as you are concealing the fact that its spam!