use of celebA in a book

[makeyourownneuralnetwork]

Hi

I am writing a book for beginners on making their first GAN with Python/PyTorch.

I would like to use the CelebA dataset as an example dataset.

I understand the dataset is "not for commercial use". So I have some questions:

• Can I have permission to use the CelebA dataset to show a few example images from it?

• Can I have permission to share a "HDF5" version of the dataset?

I suspect the answer to the above is no. So...

• Can I use my own cartoon images to illustrate faces, but then only explain how to download, parse, and then write code to train a GAN using celebA? This way no actual images from the dataset are shown. The dataset itself won't be re-distributed. Users will be pointed to your website.

• I have had legal advice to say that images that GAN outputs are not covered by the same restrictions as the source dataset because they are not actually in the dataset, and no part of them is. Do you have any thoughts on this? I hope to show the results of poor and then good GAN training in my book.

[makeyourownneuralnetwork]

my apologies for posting this here - I couldn't find an issues page for the CelebA dataset