Yes. James Brown has 217 songs listed in a dataset used to train AI music models.

Used for training 217

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 Get Up (I Feel Like Being A) Sex Machine (Get On Up Soundtrack Version / Live In Paris/1971), Please Please Please (Live At The Olympia, Paris / 1971), Try Me (Live At The Olympia, Paris / 1971)

Listed under the artist name 217 songs in LAION-DISCO-12M

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

Get Up (I Feel Like Being A) Sex Machine (Get On Up Soundtrack Version / Live In Paris/1971)

Listed as James Brown, The J.B.'s – Get Up (I Feel Like Being A) Sex Machine (Get On Up Soundtrack Version / Live In Paris/1971) (Best Live Music) · Watch on YouTube

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Please Please Please (Live At The Olympia, Paris / 1971)

Listed as James Brown, The J.B.'s – Please Please Please (Live At The Olympia, Paris / 1971) (Love Power Peace (Live At The Olympia, Paris, 1971)) · Watch on YouTube

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Try Me (Live At The Olympia, Paris / 1971)

Listed as James Brown, The J.B.'s – Try Me (Live At The Olympia, Paris / 1971) (Love Power Peace (Live At The Olympia, Paris, 1971)) · Watch on YouTube

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Feel Good

Listed as James Brown and Fambo, Fambo – Feel Good (Klampute Riddim) · Watch on YouTube

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You Got To Have A Job (If You Don't Work You Can't Eat)

Listed as James Brown, Marva Whitney – You Got To Have A Job (If You Don't Work You Can't Eat) (James Brown's Original Funky Divas) · Watch on YouTube

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Since You Been Gone

Listed as James Brown, Bobby Byrd – Since You Been Gone (Motherlode) · Watch on YouTube

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Think (Live At The Apollo Theater, 1967)

Listed as James Brown & The Famous Flames, Marva Whitney – Think (Live At The Apollo Theater, 1967) ('Live' At The Apollo (Vol. II)) · Watch on YouTube

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Medley: Papa's Got A Brand New Bag / I Got You (I Feel Good) / I Got The Feelin' (Live At The Olympia, Paris / 1971)

Listed as James Brown, The J.B.'s – Medley: Papa's Got A Brand New Bag / I Got You (I Feel Good) / I Got The Feelin' (Live At The Olympia, Paris / 1971) (Love Power Peace (Live At The Olympia, Paris, 1971)) · Watch on YouTube

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It's A Man's Man's Man's World (Live At The Olympia, Paris / 1971)

Listed as James Brown, The J.B.'s – It's A Man's Man's Man's World (Live At The Olympia, Paris / 1971) (Love Power Peace (Live At The Olympia, Paris, 1971)) · Watch on YouTube

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It Had To Be You

Listed as James Brown, Dee Felice Trio – It Had To Be You (Gettin' Down To It) · Watch on YouTube

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Sex Machine (Reprise) (Live At The Olympia, Paris / 1971)

Listed as James Brown, The J.B.'s – Sex Machine (Reprise) (Live At The Olympia, Paris / 1971) (Love Power Peace (Live At The Olympia, Paris, 1971)) · Watch on YouTube

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Unity, Pt. 6 (World War III)

Listed as Afrika Bambaataa, James Brown – Unity, Pt. 6 (World War III) (Unity) · Watch on YouTube

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All The Way

Listed as James Brown, Dee Felice Trio – All The Way (Gettin' Down To It) · Watch on YouTube

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Unity, Pt. 4 (Can You See It)

Listed as Afrika Bambaataa, James Brown – Unity, Pt. 4 (Can You See It) (Unity) · Watch on YouTube

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Unity, Pt. 3 (Nuclear Wild Style)

Listed as Afrika Bambaataa, James Brown – Unity, Pt. 3 (Nuclear Wild Style) (Unity) · Watch on YouTube

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Sweet Soul Music (Live At The Apollo/2001)

Listed as Bobby Byrd, James Brown – Sweet Soul Music (Live At The Apollo/2001) (Live At The Apollo, Vol. II (Deluxe Edition)) · Watch on YouTube

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Unity, Pt. 2 (Because It's Coming)

Listed as Afrika Bambaataa, James Brown – Unity, Pt. 2 (Because It's Coming) (Unity) · 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.