Yes. John Hicks has 130 songs listed in a dataset used to train AI music models.

Used for training 130

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 A Flower Is a Lovesome Thing, Daydream, Duke Ellington's Sound Of Love (Live At Maybeck Recital Hall, Berkeley, CA / August 1990)

Listed under the artist name 130 songs in LAION-DISCO-12M

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

A Flower Is a Lovesome Thing

Listed as John Hicks – A Flower Is a Lovesome Thing (Something to Live For) · Watch on YouTube

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Daydream

Listed as John Hicks – Daydream (Something to Live For) · Watch on YouTube

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Duke Ellington's Sound Of Love (Live At Maybeck Recital Hall, Berkeley, CA / August 1990)

Listed as John Hicks – Duke Ellington's Sound Of Love (Live At Maybeck Recital Hall, Berkeley, CA / August 1990) (The Maybeck Recital Series, Vol. 7) · Watch on YouTube

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Peanut Butter Two

Listed as John Hicks – Peanut Butter Two (Sweet Love of Mine) · Watch on YouTube

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Fiddlin' Around

Listed as Jay McShann, John HIcks – Fiddlin' Around (The Missouri Connection) · Watch on YouTube

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Fatha's Bedtime Story

Listed as John Hicks – Fatha's Bedtime Story (Fatha's Day: An Earl Hines Songbook) · Watch on YouTube

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GENTLE RAIN

Listed as JOHN HICKS – GENTLE RAIN (GENTLE RAIN) · Watch on YouTube

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Ballad for Mary Lou

Listed as John Hicks – Ballad for Mary Lou (Impressions of Mary Lou) · Watch on YouTube

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Turn out the Stars (feat. Marvin "Smitty" Smith & Ray Drummond)

Listed as John Hicks – Turn out the Stars (feat. Marvin "Smitty" Smith & Ray Drummond) (Beyond Expectations) · Watch on YouTube

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Angel with a Briefcase

Listed as John Hicks – Angel with a Briefcase (Music in the Key of Clark) · Watch on YouTube

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Summary

Listed as John Hicks – Summary (Something to Live For) · Watch on YouTube

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Intermission

Listed as John Hicks – Intermission (Impressions of Mary Lou) · Watch on YouTube

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Contemplation (Live At Maybeck Recital Hall, Berkeley, CA / August 1990)

Listed as John Hicks – Contemplation (Live At Maybeck Recital Hall, Berkeley, CA / August 1990) (The Maybeck Recital Series, Vol. 7) · Watch on YouTube

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Oblivion (Live At Maybeck Recital Hall, Berkeley, CA / August 1990)

Listed as John Hicks – Oblivion (Live At Maybeck Recital Hall, Berkeley, CA / August 1990) (The Maybeck Recital Series, Vol. 7) · Watch on YouTube

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Heroes (Live At Maybeck Recital Hall, Berkeley, CA / August 1990)

Listed as John Hicks – Heroes (Live At Maybeck Recital Hall, Berkeley, CA / August 1990) (The Maybeck Recital Series, Vol. 7) · Watch on YouTube

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Never Let Me Go

Listed as John Hicks – Never Let Me Go (John Hicks Live in Tokyo) · Watch on YouTube

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There Is No Greater Love (feat. Marvin "Smitty" Smith & Ray Drummond)

Listed as John Hicks – There Is No Greater Love (feat. Marvin "Smitty" Smith & Ray Drummond) (Beyond Expectations) · Watch on YouTube

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Say it (Over and Over Again)

Listed as John Hicks – Say it (Over and Over Again) (John Hicks Live in Tokyo) · Watch on YouTube

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Sonny's Mood

Listed as John Hicks – Sonny's Mood (Music in the Key of Clark) · Watch on YouTube

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Sonny's Ballad

Listed as John Hicks – Sonny's Ballad (Music in the Key of Clark) · Watch on YouTube

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It Gets Better Everytime

Listed as John Hicks – It Gets Better Everytime (Nightwind) · Watch on YouTube

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Sweet and Lovely

Listed as John Hicks – Sweet and Lovely (Fatha's Day: An Earl Hines Songbook) · Watch on YouTube

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Stella by Starlight (feat. Marvin "Smitty" Smith & Ray Drummond)

Listed as John Hicks – Stella by Starlight (feat. Marvin "Smitty" Smith & Ray Drummond) (Beyond Expectations) · Watch on YouTube

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Nutty (Recorded Live in Concert, 2006)

Listed as John Hicks – Nutty (Recorded Live in Concert, 2006) (I Remember You (Recorded Live in Concert, 2006)) · Watch on YouTube

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I Remember Clifford

Listed as John Hicks – I Remember Clifford (Sweet Love of Mine) · Watch on YouTube

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Last When We Were Young

Listed as John Hicks, Peter Leitch – Last When We Were Young (Duality) · Watch on YouTube

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Synopsis

Listed as John Hicks – Synopsis (Fatha's Day: An Earl Hines Songbook) · Watch on YouTube

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Bouncing with Bud (feat. Marvin "Smitty" Smith & Ray Drummond)

Listed as John Hicks – Bouncing with Bud (feat. Marvin "Smitty" Smith & Ray Drummond) (Beyond Expectations) · Watch on YouTube

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Epistrophy

Listed as John Hicks, Peter Leitch – Epistrophy (Duality) · Watch on YouTube

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Blues For Maybeck Recital Hall (Live At Maybeck Recital Hall, Berkeley, CA / August 1990)

Listed as John Hicks – Blues For Maybeck Recital Hall (Live At Maybeck Recital Hall, Berkeley, CA / August 1990) (The Maybeck Recital Series, Vol. 7) · 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.