> From my research the general consensus is that the processing of copyrighted material will be considered fair use. Here is a lengthy legal discussion: IANAL

> From my research the general consensus is that the processing of copyrighted material will be considered fair use. Here is a lengthy legal discussion: IANAL but I would take any opinions on this right now with a huge grain of salt and treat them more as advocacy than actual predictions of any legal outcomes. Whether there is a good case for it being considered fair use doesn't matter at all until its actually litigated and historically the result with fair use in relation to new technologies has always been a crapshoot. The result could easily be affected by the actual cases that get litigated, and one well chosen lawsuit where machine learning software is shown to produce output that's too close to the material it was trained on could result in a completely different outcome.