Yes. David Rovics has 148 songs listed in a dataset used to train AI music models.

Used for training 148

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 Operation Iraqi Liberation, If / Then, Here at the End of the World (Live)

Listed under the artist name 148 songs in LAION-DISCO-12M

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

Operation Iraqi Liberation

Listed as David Rovics – Operation Iraqi Liberation (The Commons) · Watch on YouTube

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If / Then

Listed as David Rovics – If / Then (1939) · Watch on YouTube

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Here at the End of the World (Live)

Listed as David Rovics – Here at the End of the World (Live) (Live in Boulder) · Watch on YouTube

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Humanitarian Pause

Listed as David Rovics – Humanitarian Pause (Notes from a Holocaust) · Watch on YouTube

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Contras, Kings and Generals

Listed as David Rovics – Contras, Kings and Generals (We Just Want the World) · Watch on YouTube

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I Heard a Rumor

Listed as David Rovics – I Heard a Rumor (I Heard a Rumor) · Watch on YouTube

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Tax the Rich

Listed as David Rovics – Tax the Rich (Big Red Sessions) · Watch on YouTube

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Paul Wolfowitz

Listed as David Rovics – Paul Wolfowitz (Halliburton Boardroom Massacre) · Watch on YouTube

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The Death of Rachel Corrie (Live)

Listed as David Rovics – The Death of Rachel Corrie (Live) (Live in Boulder) · Watch on YouTube

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Letter to My Landlord (Live)

Listed as David Rovics – Letter to My Landlord (Live) (Historic Times) · Watch on YouTube

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Minimum Wage Strike

Listed as David Rovics – Minimum Wage Strike (We Just Want the World) · Watch on YouTube

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Landlord (Live)

Listed as David Rovics – Landlord (Live) (Live in Rostrevor) · Watch on YouTube

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John Brown (Live)

Listed as David Rovics – John Brown (Live) (Live in Rostrevor) · Watch on YouTube

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116 Degrees

Listed as David Rovics – 116 Degrees (May Day) · Watch on YouTube

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The Death of Rachel Corrie

Listed as David Rovics – The Death of Rachel Corrie (Return) · Watch on YouTube

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Shut Them Down

Listed as David Rovics – Shut Them Down (Living In These Times) · Watch on YouTube

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Santiago

Listed as David Rovics – Santiago (Ten Thousand Miles Away) · Watch on YouTube

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Smashing Elbit Systems (Live)

Listed as David Rovics – Smashing Elbit Systems (Live) (Ministry of Culture: Live at Ecosocialism 2024) · Watch on YouTube

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Rent Strike

Listed as David Rovics – Rent Strike (I Heard a Rumor) · Watch on YouTube

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Oppositional Defiant Disorder

Listed as David Rovics – Oppositional Defiant Disorder (Songs for Mahmud) · Watch on YouTube

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Henry Ford Was A Fascist

Listed as David Rovics – Henry Ford Was A Fascist (We Just Want the World) · Watch on YouTube

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The Murdered and the Missing (Song for Chelsea Poorman) [Live]

Listed as David Rovics – The Murdered and the Missing (Song for Chelsea Poorman) [Live] (Ministry of Culture: Live at Ecosocialism 2024) · Watch on YouTube

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St Patrick Battalion (Live)

Listed as David Rovics – St Patrick Battalion (Live) (Ministry of Culture: Live at Ecosocialism 2024) · Watch on YouTube

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New Orleans

Listed as David Rovics – New Orleans (Halliburton Boardroom Massacre) · Watch on YouTube

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Famine and Disease

Listed as David Rovics – Famine and Disease (Notes from a Holocaust) · Watch on YouTube

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Die Moorsoldaten

Listed as David Rovics – Die Moorsoldaten (1939) · Watch on YouTube

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Keep on Eating Til the Card's Maxed Out

Listed as David Rovics – Keep on Eating Til the Card's Maxed Out (I Heard a Rumor) · Watch on YouTube

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When I'm Elected President

Listed as David Rovics – When I'm Elected President (All the News That's Fit to Sing) · Watch on YouTube

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The House Un-Israeli Activities Committee

Listed as David Rovics – The House Un-Israeli Activities Committee (I Heard a Rumor) · Watch on YouTube

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Osama Bin Laden Is Dead

Listed as David Rovics – Osama Bin Laden Is Dead (Big Red Sessions) · Watch on YouTube

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They Lied

Listed as David Rovics – They Lied (Rebel Songs (Free the Imagination)) · Watch on YouTube

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The Pirate Radio Song

Listed as David Rovics – The Pirate Radio Song (Hang A Flag In The Window) · Watch on YouTube

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I Wanna Go Home

Listed as David Rovics – I Wanna Go Home (Songs for Mahmud) · Watch on YouTube

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Song for the ELF

Listed as David Rovics – Song for the ELF (Hang A Flag In The Window) · Watch on YouTube

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1933

Listed as David Rovics – 1933 (Historic Times) · Watch on YouTube

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Cancel Culture Commander (Ballad of an Anarcho-Puritan)

Listed as David Rovics – Cancel Culture Commander (Ballad of an Anarcho-Puritan) (I Heard a Rumor) · Watch on YouTube

youtube_video j5PiH8RpW8Y · row j5PiH8RpW8Y

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Flour Massacre

Listed as David Rovics – Flour Massacre (Bearing Witness) · Watch on YouTube

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We Just Want the World

Listed as David Rovics – We Just Want the World (We Just Want the World) · Watch on YouTube

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Used To Be A City

Listed as David Rovics – Used To Be A City (Songs for Mahmud) · Watch on YouTube

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They Couldn't Stand By

Listed as David Rovics – They Couldn't Stand By (1939) · Watch on YouTube

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Join the Mob

Listed as David Rovics – Join the Mob (I Heard a Rumor) · Watch on YouTube

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God's Gift to the Caliphate

Listed as David Rovics – God's Gift to the Caliphate (1939) · Watch on YouTube

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Halliburton Boardroom Massacre

Listed as David Rovics – Halliburton Boardroom Massacre (The Commons) · Watch on YouTube

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Hollywood Bread

Listed as David Rovics – Hollywood Bread (Bearing Witness) · Watch on YouTube

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Killing the Messenger

Listed as David Rovics – Killing the Messenger (Killing the Messenger) · Watch on YouTube

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Send Them Back (Live)

Listed as David Rovics – Send Them Back (Live) (Historic Times) · Watch on YouTube

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Punk Rock Baby

Listed as David Rovics – Punk Rock Baby (Har Har Har) · Watch on YouTube

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The Last Time the Us Invaded Russia

Listed as David Rovics – The Last Time the Us Invaded Russia (Bearing Witness) · 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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