Yes. Blackthorn has 114 songs listed in a dataset used to train AI music models.

Used for training 114

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 Only Place Open in Town, Peggy Thorn, Banks of the Callan

Listed under the artist name 114 songs in LAION-DISCO-12M

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

Only Place Open in Town

Listed as Blackthorn – Only Place Open in Town (The Other Side) · Watch on YouTube

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Peggy Thorn

Listed as Blackthorn – Peggy Thorn (100 of the Best Irish Songs) · Watch on YouTube

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Banks of the Callan

Listed as Blackthorn – Banks of the Callan (Swift and Sloe) · Watch on YouTube

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Sacred Ground

Listed as Blackthorn – Sacred Ground (Push & Pull) · Watch on YouTube

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Hugh O'Donnell's Escape

Listed as Blackthorn – Hugh O'Donnell's Escape (The Other Side) · Watch on YouTube

youtube_video HbhC3lChhFc · row HbhC3lChhFc

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I Courted a Wee Girl

Listed as Blackthorn – I Courted a Wee Girl (Swift and Sloe) · Watch on YouTube

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Donegal Maiden

Listed as Blackthorn – Donegal Maiden (Push & Pull) · Watch on YouTube

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Summer in Dublin

Listed as Blackthorn – Summer in Dublin (Here we Go Again) · Watch on YouTube

youtube_video ik_FNCiml2c · row ik_FNCiml2c

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Sweet Lagan Vale

Listed as Blackthorn – Sweet Lagan Vale (Discover Celtic Music - Ballads) · Watch on YouTube

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Kerry Rain

Listed as Blackthorn – Kerry Rain (The Other Side) · Watch on YouTube

youtube_video oemU74PpLvE · row oemU74PpLvE

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City Life

Listed as Blackthorn – City Life (Push & Pull) · Watch on YouTube

youtube_video q3cnPlT9ecI · row q3cnPlT9ecI

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The Jolly Tinker

Listed as Blackthorn – The Jolly Tinker (Swift and Sloe) · Watch on YouTube

youtube_video qO3YG3JkySs · row qO3YG3JkySs

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The Knitter/Through a Thorn Hedge/ Road to Mallymore (Polkas)

Listed as Blackthorn – The Knitter/Through a Thorn Hedge/ Road to Mallymore (Polkas) (Push & Pull) · Watch on YouTube

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Before the Day Breaks

Listed as Blackthorn – Before the Day Breaks (Swift and Sloe) · 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.