Yes. Billy Taylor has 169 songs listed in a dataset used to train AI music models.

Used for training 169

songs in LAION-DISCO-12M under the artist name

A list of 12 million songs on YouTube Music, gathered by walking artist pages, that LAION published in 2024 for training general music models.

Including Nice Work If You Can Get It, Easy Walker, Can You Tell By Looking At Me

Listed under the artist name 169 songs in LAION-DISCO-12M

Matched exactly: this YouTube Music artist id is the one the dataset lists these songs under.

Nice Work If You Can Get It

Listed as Billy Taylor, Ed Thigpen, Earl May – Nice Work If You Can Get It (75 Jazz Classics) · Watch on YouTube

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Easy Walker

Listed as Billy Taylor, Ed Thigpen, Earl May – Easy Walker (75 Jazz Classics) · Watch on YouTube

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Can You Tell By Looking At Me

Listed as Ed Thigpen, Billy Taylor, Earl May – Can You Tell By Looking At Me (Billy Taylor Trio) · Watch on YouTube

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'Round Midnight

Listed as Ed Thigpen, Billy Taylor, Earl May – 'Round Midnight (Billy Taylor Trio) · Watch on YouTube

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Show Me

Listed as Billy Taylor, Earl May, Ed Thigpen – Show Me (The Very Best Of) · Watch on YouTube

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Cool and Caressin

Listed as Billy Taylor, Ed Thigpen, Earl May – Cool and Caressin (75 Jazz Classics) · Watch on YouTube

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Back Home

Listed as Billy Taylor, Ed Thigpen, Earl May – Back Home (75 Jazz Classics) · Watch on YouTube

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I've Grown Accustomed To Your Face

Listed as Billy Taylor, Ed Thigpen, Earl May – I've Grown Accustomed To Your Face (The Very Best Of) · Watch on YouTube

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Early Morning Mambo

Listed as Billy Taylor, Ed Thigpen, Earl May – Early Morning Mambo (75 Jazz Classics) · Watch on YouTube

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I Get A Kick Out Of You

Listed as Ed Thigpen, Billy Taylor, Earl May – I Get A Kick Out Of You (Billy Taylor Trio) · Watch on YouTube

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The Song Is Ended

Listed as Billy Taylor, Ed Thigpen, Earl May – The Song Is Ended (75 Jazz Classics) · Watch on YouTube

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Earl May

Listed as Ed Thigpen, Billy Taylor, Earl May – Earl May (Billy Taylor Trio) · Watch on YouTube

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With A Little Bit Of Luck

Listed as Billy Taylor, Ed Thigpen, Earl May – With A Little Bit Of Luck (The Very Best Of) · Watch on YouTube

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You Make Me Feel So Young

Listed as Ed Thigpen, Billy Taylor, Earl May – You Make Me Feel So Young (Billy Taylor Trio) · Watch on YouTube

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Solace

Listed as Billy Taylor, Ed Thigpen, Earl May – Solace (75 Jazz Classics) · Watch on YouTube

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Stridin' Down Champs 'Elysees'

Listed as Billy Taylor, Ed Thigpen, Earl May – Stridin' Down Champs 'Elysees' (75 Jazz Classics) · Watch on YouTube

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Coffee Break

Listed as Billy Taylor, Ed Thigpen, Earl May – Coffee Break (75 Jazz Classics) · Watch on YouTube

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Wouldn't It Be Lovely?

Listed as Billy Taylor, Earl May, Ed Thigpen – Wouldn't It Be Lovely? (The Very Best Of) · Watch on YouTube

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That's Where It Is

Listed as Billy Taylor, Ed Thigpen, Earl May – That's Where It Is (75 Jazz Classics) · Watch on YouTube

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What this means

Last reviewed 2026-09-24.

Presence in a public research dataset shows that a clip of your recording was listed by academic or industry researchers as material for building or testing audio models. It does not by itself show which commercial products, if any, used the clip. The legal picture is moving. On 31 July 2026 the Regional Court of Munich I ruled in GEMA's case against Suno (case 42 O 763/25) that reproducing works for training, holding them in a model in retrievable form, and generating similar outputs can each infringe copyright under German and EU law; the judgment is not final and can be appealed. In the United States, Warner Music Group settled its claims against Suno on 25 November 2025 with a licensing deal, while the parallel claims by Universal and Sony were still pending at that point. Since then BMG (12 August 2026) and Believe/TuneCore (8 September 2026) have signed opt-in licensing deals with Suno.

What you can do

3 routes. None is a guarantee.

UK, PRS members. Send PRS for Music your report and ask what collective or licensing route covers your works.
- PRS for Music and Artificial Intelligence, Version 1 (October 2025), 2025-10-01
- PRS for Music: AI and music copyright, 2026-09-24
Germany, GEMA members. GEMA won a first-instance ruling against Suno on 31 July 2026 and has a licensing model. Ask how they apply to your repertoire.
- GEMA: Suno AI and OpenAI, GEMA sues for fair compensation, 2025-01-21
- DLA Piper: GEMA v Suno, Munich Regional Court judgment of 31 July 2026, 2026-08-28
- Music Business Worldwide: Germany's GEMA launches AI Charter, 2024-11-05
Signed to Warner, BMG or Believe/TuneCore. Each has an opt-in licensing deal with Suno. Ask your label what opting in or out means for you and whether any settlement money reaches artists.
- Music Business Worldwide: Warner Music Group settles with Suno, 2025-11-25
- Music Ally: Suno signs another music licensing deal, with BMG, 2026-08-12
- Music Business Worldwide: Suno inks global deal with Believe, 2026-09-08

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These pages report where identifiers from public research datasets point. Presence in a dataset is a fact about the dataset, not a claim about the channel or artist, and says nothing about what any company did with the material. If you are this artist and want this page removed, see removals.