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.
What jurisdiction? IANAL, but in countries with TDM exceptions like Singapore or the EU, usually the training material itself must be legal (e.g. no hacking).
songs are mostly from US and Canada, but some are international (ie from Asia).