Yes. José Luis Barba has 8 songs listed in a dataset used to train AI music models.

Used for training 8

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 Buscando un Buen Color, Las Playas de Santa Fé, Una Muchacha de Esta Ciudad

Listed under the artist name 8 songs in LAION-DISCO-12M

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

Buscando un Buen Color

Listed as José Luis Barba, Carlos Varela – Buscando un Buen Color (Cubanos) · Watch on YouTube

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Las Playas de Santa Fé

Listed as José Luis Barba, Frank Delgado – Las Playas de Santa Fé (Cubanos) · Watch on YouTube

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Una Muchacha de Esta Ciudad

Listed as José Luis Barba, Kelvis Ochoa – Una Muchacha de Esta Ciudad (Cubanos) · Watch on YouTube

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Samba al Optimismo

Listed as José Luis Barba, Polito Ibáñez – Samba al Optimismo (Cubanos) · Watch on YouTube

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Sandalio

Listed as José Luis Barba, Amaury Gutiérrez – Sandalio (Cubanos) · Watch on YouTube

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Camino del Alma

Listed as José Luis Barba, Pancho Céspedes – Camino del Alma (Cubanos) · Watch on YouTube

youtube_video r14mW71162A · row r14mW71162A

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Musa de los Poetas

Listed as José Luis Barba, Mayito Rivera – Musa de los Poetas (Cubanos) · Watch on YouTube

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Todo el Amor

Listed as José Luis Barba, Diana Fuentes – Todo el Amor (Cubanos) · 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.