Yes. Leon Russell 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 Life And Love, Come On Into My Kitchen (Live), Space Captain (Stereo Mix)

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.

Life And Love

Listed as Leon Russell – Life And Love (A Song For You) · Watch on YouTube

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Come On Into My Kitchen (Live)

Listed as Leon Russell – Come On Into My Kitchen (Live) (Borderline) · Watch on YouTube

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Space Captain (Stereo Mix)

Listed as Joe Cocker, Leon Russell, The Shelter People – Space Captain (Stereo Mix) (Mad Dogs & Englishmen (Deluxe Edition)) · Watch on YouTube

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The Ballad Of Hollis Brown

Listed as Leon Russell – The Ballad Of Hollis Brown (Stop All That Jazz) · Watch on YouTube

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Always

Listed as Willie Nelson, Leon Russell – Always (One For The Road) · Watch on YouTube

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Ladies of the Night

Listed as Leon Russell – Ladies of the Night (Americana) · Watch on YouTube

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High Horse

Listed as Leon Russell – High Horse (Life & Love) · Watch on YouTube

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Ridin' Down the Canyon

Listed as Willie Nelson, Leon Russell – Ridin' Down the Canyon (One For The Road) · Watch on YouTube

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America the Beautiful / Dixie Lullaby / Chicken Fried (Live at the 52nd Grammy® Awards)

Listed as Zac Brown Band, Leon Russell – America the Beautiful / Dixie Lullaby / Chicken Fried (Live at the 52nd Grammy® Awards) (America the Beautiful / Dixie Lullaby / Chicken Fried (Live at the 52nd Grammy® Awards)) · Watch on YouTube

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The Window Up Above

Listed as George Jones, Leon Russell – The Window Up Above (Burn Your Playhouse Down) · Watch on YouTube

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Joshua Come Home

Listed as Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Leon Russell – Joshua Come Home (Symphonion Dream) · 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.