Yes. Johnny Williams has 13 songs listed in a dataset used to train AI music models.

Used for training 13

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 Shake It Down, Far out Place (Checkmate), Queens Sacrifice (Checkmate)

Listed under the artist name 13 songs in LAION-DISCO-12M

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

Shake It Down

Listed as Johnny Young, Johnny Williams – Shake It Down (Money Talking Woman) · Watch on YouTube

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Far out Place (Checkmate)

Listed as Johnny Williams, Lionel Newman – Far out Place (Checkmate) (Original Music from the Tv Series "Checkmate" And "Hong Kong") · Watch on YouTube

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Queens Sacrifice (Checkmate)

Listed as Johnny Williams, Lionel Newman – Queens Sacrifice (Checkmate) (Original Music from the Tv Series "Checkmate" And "Hong Kong") · Watch on YouTube

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The Black Knight (Checkmate)

Listed as Johnny Williams, Lionel Newman – The Black Knight (Checkmate) (Original Music from the Tv Series "Checkmate" And "Hong Kong") · Watch on YouTube

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Cyanide Touch (Checkmate)

Listed as Johnny Williams, Lionel Newman – Cyanide Touch (Checkmate) (Original Music from the Tv Series "Checkmate" And "Hong Kong") · Watch on YouTube

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Worried Man Blues

Listed as Johnny Williams, Johnny Young – Worried Man Blues (Money Talking Woman) · Watch on YouTube

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The Bishops Retreat (Checkmate)

Listed as Johnny Williams, Lionel Newman – The Bishops Retreat (Checkmate) (Original Music from the Tv Series "Checkmate" And "Hong Kong") · Watch on YouTube

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Fireside Eyes (Checkmate)

Listed as Johnny Williams, Lionel Newman – Fireside Eyes (Checkmate) (Original Music from the Tv Series "Checkmate" And "Hong Kong") · Watch on YouTube

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The Isolated Pawn (Checkmate)

Listed as Johnny Williams, Lionel Newman – The Isolated Pawn (Checkmate) (Original Music from the Tv Series "Checkmate" And "Hong Kong") · Watch on YouTube

youtube_video eu-JVM6gWjU · row eu-JVM6gWjU

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Theme from Checkmate

Listed as Johnny Williams, Lionel Newman – Theme from Checkmate (Original Music from the Tv Series "Checkmate" And "Hong Kong") · Watch on YouTube

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Shy Youth (Checkmate)

Listed as Johnny Williams, Lionel Newman – Shy Youth (Checkmate) (Original Music from the Tv Series "Checkmate" And "Hong Kong") · Watch on YouTube

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The King Swings (Checkmate)

Listed as Johnny Williams, Lionel Newman – The King Swings (Checkmate) (Original Music from the Tv Series "Checkmate" And "Hong Kong") · Watch on YouTube

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Hassle in the Castle (Checkmate)

Listed as Johnny Williams, Lionel Newman – Hassle in the Castle (Checkmate) (Original Music from the Tv Series "Checkmate" And "Hong Kong") · 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.