Yes. Michael Franks has 142 songs listed in a dataset used to train AI music models.

Used for training 142

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 Long Slow Distance, Now I Know Why (They Call It Falling), Jealousy

Listed under the artist name 142 songs in LAION-DISCO-12M

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

Long Slow Distance

Listed as Michael Franks – Long Slow Distance (Blue Pacific) · Watch on YouTube

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Now I Know Why (They Call It Falling)

Listed as Michael Franks – Now I Know Why (They Call It Falling) (Skin Dive) · Watch on YouTube

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Jealousy

Listed as Michael Franks – Jealousy (Objects Of Desire) · Watch on YouTube

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Dear Little Nightengale

Listed as Michael Franks – Dear Little Nightengale (Burchfield Nines) · Watch on YouTube

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Sometimes I Just Forget to Smile

Listed as Michael Franks – Sometimes I Just Forget to Smile (The Art Of Tea) · Watch on YouTube

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Lotus Blossom

Listed as Michael Franks – Lotus Blossom (One Bad Habit) · Watch on YouTube

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I Love Lucy

Listed as Michael Franks – I Love Lucy (Dragonfly Summer) · Watch on YouTube

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String of Pearls

Listed as Michael Franks – String of Pearls (Dragonfly Summer) · Watch on YouTube

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Samba Do Soho

Listed as Michael Franks – Samba Do Soho (Rendezvous In Rio) · Watch on YouTube

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Charlie Chan In Egypt

Listed as Michael Franks – Charlie Chan In Egypt (Time Together) · Watch on YouTube

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Monk's New Tune

Listed as Michael Franks – Monk's New Tune (Dragonfly Summer) · Watch on YouTube

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The Fountain of Youth

Listed as Michael Franks – The Fountain of Youth (Barefoot On The Beach) · Watch on YouTube

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Blue Pacific

Listed as Michael Franks – Blue Pacific (Blue Pacific) · Watch on YouTube

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Amazon

Listed as Michael Franks – Amazon (Passion Fruit) · Watch on YouTube

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Double Talk

Listed as Michael Franks – Double Talk (Barefoot On The Beach) · Watch on YouTube

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When You Smiled At Me

Listed as Michael Franks – When You Smiled At Me (Barefoot On The Beach) · Watch on YouTube

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All I Need

Listed as Michael Franks – All I Need (Blue Pacific) · Watch on YouTube

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Abandoned Garden

Listed as Michael Franks – Abandoned Garden (Abandoned Garden) · Watch on YouTube

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Vincent's Ear

Listed as Michael Franks – Vincent's Ear (Blue Pacific) · Watch on YouTube

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How the Garden Grows

Listed as Michael Franks – How the Garden Grows (Passion Fruit) · Watch on YouTube

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When She Is Mine

Listed as MICHAEL FRANKS – When She Is Mine (Skin Dive) · Watch on YouTube

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Sanpaku

Listed as Michael Franks – Sanpaku (Tiger In The Rain) · Watch on YouTube

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You Were Meant for Me

Listed as Michael Franks – You Were Meant for Me (Dragonfly Summer) · Watch on YouTube

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Never Say Die

Listed as Michael Franks – Never Say Die (Passion Fruit) · Watch on YouTube

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Baseball

Listed as Michael Franks – Baseball (One Bad Habit) · Watch on YouTube

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Keeping My Eye on You

Listed as Michael Franks – Keeping My Eye on You (Dragonfly Summer) · Watch on YouTube

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This Must Be Paradise

Listed as Michael Franks – This Must Be Paradise (Abandoned Garden) · Watch on YouTube

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Living on the Inside

Listed as Michael Franks – Living on the Inside (Tiger In The Rain) · Watch on YouTube

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One Day In St. Tropez

Listed as Michael Franks – One Day In St. Tropez (Time Together) · Watch on YouTube

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Love Duet

Listed as Michael Franks – Love Duet (Objects Of Desire) · Watch on YouTube

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I'd Rather Be Happy Than Right

Listed as Michael Franks – I'd Rather Be Happy Than Right (Time Together) · Watch on YouTube

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Let Me Count the Ways

Listed as Michael Franks – Let Me Count the Ways (Skin Dive) · Watch on YouTube

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Tahitian Moon

Listed as Michael Franks – Tahitian Moon (Objects Of Desire) · Watch on YouTube

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Wrestle a Live Nude Girl

Listed as Michael Franks – Wrestle a Live Nude Girl (Burchfield Nines) · Watch on YouTube

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Sunday Morning Here with You

Listed as Michael Franks – Sunday Morning Here with You (Passion Fruit) · Watch on YouTube

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Why Spring Ain't Here

Listed as Michael Franks – Why Spring Ain't Here (Barefoot On The Beach) · Watch on YouTube

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How I Remember You

Listed as Michael Franks – How I Remember You (Dragonfly Summer) · Watch on YouTube

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In Search of the Perfect Shampoo

Listed as Michael Franks – In Search of the Perfect Shampoo (Burchfield Nines) · Watch on YouTube

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Time Together

Listed as Michael Franks – Time Together (Time Together) · Watch on YouTube

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The Chemistry Of Love

Listed as Michael Franks – The Chemistry Of Love (Rendezvous In Rio) · Watch on YouTube

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Coming to Life

Listed as Michael Franks – Coming to Life (Dragonfly Summer) · Watch on YouTube

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Cinema

Listed as Michael Franks – Cinema (Abandoned Garden) · Watch on YouTube

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Speak to Me

Listed as Michael Franks – Speak to Me (Blue Pacific) · Watch on YouTube

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My Heart Said Wow

Listed as Michael Franks – My Heart Said Wow (Time Together) · Watch on YouTube

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Crayon Sun (Safe at Home)

Listed as Michael Franks – Crayon Sun (Safe at Home) (Blue Pacific) · Watch on YouTube

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The Art of Love

Listed as Michael Franks – The Art of Love (Blue Pacific) · Watch on YouTube

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Jardin Botanico

Listed as Michael Franks – Jardin Botanico (Tiger In The Rain) · Watch on YouTube

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Island Life

Listed as Michael Franks – Island Life (The Camera Never Lies) · Watch on YouTube

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Never Satisfied

Listed as Michael Franks – Never Satisfied (Passion Fruit) · Watch on YouTube

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Heart Like An Open Book

Listed as Michael Franks – Heart Like An Open Book (Barefoot On The Beach) · 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.