I want to train a model for a musician based on piano covers they have recorded of popular songs and therefore own, but because of copyright infringement they still pay royalties to the writers of these songs. Curious if this is legal or not – I would presume not since the recordings are not being monetized in this scenario but rather fed into a model, and the recordings are still owned 100% by the musician licensing them to me.
great points. the focus is so he can create more covers with the model. so the latter.
would the fair use norm be that its transforming the original songs/being trained on transformations so it would be all good? the original songs would be used during training as input to the model, but any generations would still have royalties be returned to the songwriters should the musician intend to monetize them.
re your last point: this musician has a lot of data. 30+ hours :P