Yes. John Ford has 17 songs listed in a dataset used to train AI music models.

Used for training 17

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 Mclintock's Theme, He's Linus' Boy (The Ken Darby Singers), Climb a Higher Hill

Listed under the artist name 17 songs in LAION-DISCO-12M

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

Mclintock's Theme

Listed as John Ford, John Wayne – Mclintock's Theme (Western Classics) · Watch on YouTube

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He's Linus' Boy (The Ken Darby Singers)

Listed as John Ford, John Wayne – He's Linus' Boy (The Ken Darby Singers) (Western Classics) · Watch on YouTube

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Climb a Higher Hill

Listed as John Ford, John Wayne – Climb a Higher Hill (Western Classics) · Watch on YouTube

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Main Title "How the West Was Won"

Listed as John Ford, John Wayne – Main Title "How the West Was Won" (Western Classics) · Watch on YouTube

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Two Rode Together - Main Title (George Duning)

Listed as John Ford, John Wayne – Two Rode Together - Main Title (George Duning) (Western Classics) · Watch on YouTube

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What Was Your Name in the States?

Listed as John Ford, John Wayne – What Was Your Name in the States? (Western Classics) · Watch on YouTube

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On the Beautiful Blue Danube (Leopold Stokowski)

Listed as John Ford, John Wayne – On the Beautiful Blue Danube (Leopold Stokowski) (Western Classics) · Watch on YouTube

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Overture (I'm Bound for the Promised Land/Shenandoah)

Listed as John Ford, John Wayne – Overture (I'm Bound for the Promised Land/Shenandoah) (Western Classics) · Watch on YouTube

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Just Right for Me

Listed as John Ford, John Wayne – Just Right for Me (Western Classics) · Watch on YouTube

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No Goodbye

Listed as John Ford, John Wayne – No Goodbye (Western Classics) · Watch on YouTube

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The River Pirates

Listed as John Ford, John Wayne – The River Pirates (Western Classics) · Watch on YouTube

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Finale "How the West Was Won" (The Ken Darby Singers)

Listed as John Ford, John Wayne – Finale "How the West Was Won" (The Ken Darby Singers) (Western Classics) · Watch on YouTube

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Entr' Acte (Home in the Meadow / 900 Miles / On the Banks of Sacramento / When Johnny Comes Marching Home & I'm Bound for the Promised Land / Battle Hymn of the Republik)

Listed as John Ford, John Wayne – Entr' Acte (Home in the Meadow / 900 Miles / On the Banks of Sacramento / When Johnny Comes Marching Home & I'm Bound for the Promised Land / Battle Hymn of the Republik) (Western Classics) · Watch on YouTube

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The Comancheros (Lonnie Donegan)

Listed as John Ford, John Wayne – The Comancheros (Lonnie Donegan) (Western Classics) · Watch on YouTube

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Cheyennes

Listed as John Ford, John Wayne – Cheyennes (Western Classics) · Watch on YouTube

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Main Title & Katherine Theme

Listed as John Ford, John Wayne – Main Title & Katherine Theme (Western Classics) · Watch on YouTube

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(The Man Who Shot) Liberty Valance (The Fairmount Singers)

Listed as John Ford, John Wayne – (The Man Who Shot) Liberty Valance (The Fairmount Singers) (Western Classics) · 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.