Yes. Eric Starczan has 140 songs listed in a dataset used to train AI music models.

Used for training 140

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 Drowning in the Sun, In Your Footsteps, As a Beautiful Gift

Listed under the artist name 140 songs in LAION-DISCO-12M

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

Drowning in the Sun

Listed as Eric Starczan – Drowning in the Sun (The Black Sun) · Watch on YouTube

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In Your Footsteps

Listed as Eric Starczan – In Your Footsteps (Northern Soul) · Watch on YouTube

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As a Beautiful Gift

Listed as Eric Starczan, Louis Marin Renaud – As a Beautiful Gift (Songs for the Road) · Watch on YouTube

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One Of These Morning Remix

Listed as Christophe Deschamps, Jean Luc Leonardon, Vincent Perrot, Eric Starczan – One Of These Morning Remix (La Compilation 15) · Watch on YouTube

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Turn Me On

Listed as Eric Starczan, Florent Sabaton – Turn Me On (Time2Dance) · Watch on YouTube

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The Beauty & the Beat

Listed as Eric Starczan, Florent Sabaton – The Beauty & the Beat (Time2Dance) · Watch on YouTube

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Mister Sunny Boy

Listed as Christophe Deschamps, Eric Starczan – Mister Sunny Boy (British Invasion) · Watch on YouTube

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Keep The Faith

Listed as Eric Starczan – Keep The Faith (Northern Soul) · Watch on YouTube

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Fun In the Woods

Listed as Eric Starczan, Jean-Pascal Boffo – Fun In the Woods (Happy Folkers) · Watch on YouTube

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Daouda

Listed as Christophe Deschamps, Eric Starczan – Daouda (African Grooves) · Watch on YouTube

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There's a Party

Listed as Eric Starczan, Florent Sabaton – There's a Party (Time2Dance) · Watch on YouTube

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All The Way Up

Listed as Eric Starczan – All The Way Up (Indie Pop Funky 2) · Watch on YouTube

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I Wanna Make It

Listed as Eric Starczan – I Wanna Make It (Shuffle Rock) · Watch on YouTube

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In The Pocket

Listed as Eric Starczan, Johan Dalgaard – In The Pocket (Dirty Funk) · Watch on YouTube

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Do We Doo Wap

Listed as Benoit Medrykowski, Eric Starczan – Do We Doo Wap (Feelgood Sixties) · Watch on YouTube

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Can You Feel Me

Listed as Florent Sabaton, Eric Starczan – Can You Feel Me (Electro Funk) · Watch on YouTube

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Everlasting Show

Listed as Eric Starczan – Everlasting Show (Indie Pop Funky 2) · Watch on YouTube

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Getting Stronger

Listed as Eric Starczan – Getting Stronger (Indie Pop Funky 2) · Watch on YouTube

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Soul Investigation

Listed as Eric Starczan, Johan Dalgaard – Soul Investigation (Dirty Funk) · Watch on YouTube

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Casino's Dancefloor

Listed as Eric Starczan – Casino's Dancefloor (Northern Soul) · Watch on YouTube

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Funny Voices

Listed as Eric Starczan, Florent Sabaton – Funny Voices (Time2Dance) · Watch on YouTube

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Bravely Dancers

Listed as Eric Starczan – Bravely Dancers (Northern Soul) · Watch on YouTube

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Jump In The Pool

Listed as Eric Starczan – Jump In The Pool (Indie Pop Funky 2) · Watch on YouTube

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Venice Beachcombers

Listed as Eric Starczan, Louis Marin Renaud – Venice Beachcombers (Songs for the Road) · Watch on YouTube

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Happy Friends

Listed as Eric Starczan, Jean-Pascal Boffo – Happy Friends (Happy Folkers) · Watch on YouTube

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Beach Cruising

Listed as Eric Starczan, Vincent Perrot – Beach Cruising (Indie Pop Funky) · Watch on YouTube

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Blue Red Target

Listed as Christophe Deschamps, Eric Starczan – Blue Red Target (British Invasion) · Watch on YouTube

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Sha Lala

Listed as Eric Starczan – Sha Lala (Psycherama) · Watch on YouTube

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Summer Bike Ride

Listed as Eric Starczan, Jean-Pascal Boffo – Summer Bike Ride (Happy Folkers) · Watch on YouTube

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Still Runnin

Listed as Eric Starczan – Still Runnin (Psycherama) · Watch on YouTube

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Carry On

Listed as Eric Starczan, Florent Sabaton – Carry On (Hip Hop & Guitar) · Watch on YouTube

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Get on the Blue Van

Listed as Eric Starczan, Louis Marin Renaud, Johan Dalgaard – Get on the Blue Van (Songs for the Road) · Watch on YouTube

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Friends and Family

Listed as Eric Starczan, Jean-Pascal Boffo – Friends and Family (Happy Folkers) · Watch on YouTube

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We Follow

Listed as Eric Starczan, Jean-Pascal Boffo – We Follow (Happy Folkers) · Watch on YouTube

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The Train Kept Groovin

Listed as Eric Starczan, Johan Dalgaard – The Train Kept Groovin (Dirty Funk) · Watch on YouTube

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Magnetic Pickups

Listed as Eric Starczan, Vincent Perrot – Magnetic Pickups (Indie Pop Funky) · Watch on YouTube

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Let Me Blow Your Mind

Listed as Eric Starczan, Jennifer Jordan – Let Me Blow Your Mind (Songs, Vol. 4) · Watch on YouTube

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The Ride

Listed as Eric Starczan, Florent Sabaton – The Ride (Indie Pop Funky) · Watch on YouTube

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West Coast Drivers

Listed as Eric Starczan, Louis Marin Renaud – West Coast Drivers (Songs for the Road) · Watch on YouTube

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Loudness Monster

Listed as Eric Starczan, Florent Sabaton – Loudness Monster (Stomp Rock Hop) · 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.