Yes. Joan Baez has 161 songs listed in a dataset used to train AI music models.

Used for training 161

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 Oh Freedom / Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around (Medley), Wagoner's Lad, Blackbird

Listed under the artist name 161 songs in LAION-DISCO-12M

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

Oh Freedom / Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around (Medley)

Listed as Joan Baez, Mavis Staples – Oh Freedom / Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around (Medley) (Joan Baez 75th Birthday Celebration) · Watch on YouTube

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Wagoner's Lad

Listed as Roger McGuinn, Joan Baez – Wagoner's Lad (Treasures From The Folk Den) · Watch on YouTube

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Blackbird

Listed as Joan Baez, David Crosby – Blackbird (Joan Baez 75th Birthday Celebration) · Watch on YouTube

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I Shall Be Released

Listed as BB King, Joan Baez – I Shall Be Released (Live in Sing Sing) · Watch on YouTube

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Just a Closer Walk With Thee

Listed as Joan Baez, The Chambers Brothers – Just a Closer Walk With Thee (Gospel At Newport) · Watch on YouTube

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Amazing Grace

Listed as Joan Baez, Kris Kristofferson, Graham Nash – Amazing Grace (Bill Graham Memorial Concert, San Francisco CA (3 Nov '91)) · Watch on YouTube

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The Greenwood Side

Listed as Joan Baez – The Greenwood Side (Joan) · Watch on YouTube

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Railroad Boy

Listed as Joan Baez – Railroad Boy (Joan Baez, Vol. 2) · Watch on YouTube

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Gracias A La Vida

Listed as Joan Baez, Nano Stern – Gracias A La Vida (Joan Baez 75th Birthday Celebration) · Watch on YouTube

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Before The Deluge

Listed as Joan Baez, Jackson Browne – Before The Deluge (Joan Baez 75th Birthday Celebration) · Watch on YouTube

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She Moved Through The Fair

Listed as Joan Baez, Damien Rice – She Moved Through The Fair (Joan Baez 75th Birthday Celebration) · 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.