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 Canal, The Parting, When You're The Skip
Artist Mike Ford on YouTube Music
Yes. Mike Ford has 15 songs listed in a dataset used to train AI music models.
Listed under the artist name 15 songs in LAION-DISCO-12M
Matched exactly: this YouTube Music artist id is the one the dataset lists these songs under.
Canal
Listed as David Francey, Mike Ford – Canal (Seaway) · Watch on YouTube
youtube_video 0szqU-QgPVQ · row 0szqU-QgPVQ
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The Parting
Listed as David Francey, Mike Ford – The Parting (Seaway) · Watch on YouTube
youtube_video 1SiibW2AWOA · row 1SiibW2AWOA
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When You're The Skip
Listed as David Francey, Mike Ford – When You're The Skip (Seaway) · Watch on YouTube
youtube_video 5U4SLSzYg7I · row 5U4SLSzYg7I
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Climbing Up to The Soo
Listed as David Francey, Mike Ford – Climbing Up to The Soo (Seaway) · Watch on YouTube
youtube_video 8Nw5c6jfwac · row 8Nw5c6jfwac
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The Chief Engineer
Listed as David Francey, Mike Ford – The Chief Engineer (Seaway) · Watch on YouTube
youtube_video FOdnHk-XavU · row FOdnHk-XavU
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The Seaway
Listed as David Francey, Mike Ford – The Seaway (Seaway) · Watch on YouTube
youtube_video MSBOqDmrXxM · row MSBOqDmrXxM
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The Ballad of Bowser MacRae
Listed as David Francey, Mike Ford – The Ballad of Bowser MacRae (Seaway) · Watch on YouTube
youtube_video RBEA5e3rq1w · row RBEA5e3rq1w
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All Lights Burning Bright
Listed as David Francey, Mike Ford – All Lights Burning Bright (Seaway) · Watch on YouTube
youtube_video TVBGiHS5rCU · row TVBGiHS5rCU
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The Unloading
Listed as David Francey, Mike Ford – The Unloading (Seaway) · Watch on YouTube
youtube_video Ziic33CUmcQ · row Ziic33CUmcQ
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Banks of the Seaway
Listed as David Francey, Mike Ford – Banks of the Seaway (Seaway) · Watch on YouTube
youtube_video hJjXjMTbPy8 · row hJjXjMTbPy8
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Dustless Road to the Happy Land
Listed as David Francey, Mike Ford – Dustless Road to the Happy Land (Seaway) · Watch on YouTube
youtube_video kucyRhD5CY0 · row kucyRhD5CY0
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Eastern Gap
Listed as David Francey, Mike Ford – Eastern Gap (Seaway) · Watch on YouTube
youtube_video lPPBKHDTuP0 · row lPPBKHDTuP0
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The Bottom of the Great Lakes
Listed as David Francey, Mike Ford – The Bottom of the Great Lakes (Seaway) · Watch on YouTube
youtube_video mt8yOb8493o · row mt8yOb8493o
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Ashtabula
Listed as David Francey, Mike Ford – Ashtabula (Seaway) · Watch on YouTube
youtube_video n5WVcVRBxyw · row n5WVcVRBxyw
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There's No Rush
Listed as David Francey, Mike Ford – There's No Rush (Seaway) · Watch on YouTube
youtube_video u8NHpzHKO3k · row u8NHpzHKO3k
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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.
- DLA Piper: Creation of music with generative AI may be copyright infringement (GEMA v Suno, LG München I, 42 O 763/25), 2026-08-28
- Music Business Worldwide: Warner Music Group settles with Suno, strikes first-of-its-kind deal, 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
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.
- 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.
- 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.
Is this you?
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.