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Almost certainly a trained neural network would be classified as a "collection" under copyright. Interestingly, I suspect that this collection is not a derived work of the individual photos because the photos are not actually included in the trained neural net. Instead the network collects facts about the photos that allows it to recognise the faces.

Not a lawyer and I bet you could get a case to go to court arguing otherwise, but this is my guess on what the result would be.




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