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.

  • SuperwhizAJOPBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Okay yes, technically it would very difficult to track and no one would probably even know the musician is using such a model. But as an academic, I’d prefer to do legal things only :P especially if I want to use results in a publication down the line.

    And yes, I’d make money off it. would charge $x/full piano cover request.