Yes. Otis Taylor has 127 songs listed in a dataset used to train AI music models.

Used for training 127

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 Ran So Hard The Sun Went Down, Hookers in the street, Contraband Blues

Listed under the artist name 127 songs in LAION-DISCO-12M

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

Ran So Hard The Sun Went Down

Listed as Otis Taylor – Ran So Hard The Sun Went Down (Recapturing The Banjo) · Watch on YouTube

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Hookers in the street

Listed as Otis Taylor – Hookers in the street (Otis Taylor Collection) · Watch on YouTube

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Contraband Blues

Listed as Otis Taylor – Contraband Blues (Otis Taylor's Contraband) · Watch on YouTube

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Ten Million Slaves

Listed as Otis Taylor – Ten Million Slaves (Recapturing The Banjo) · Watch on YouTube

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Write A Book About It

Listed as Otis Taylor – Write A Book About It (Banjo...) · Watch on YouTube

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Looking For Some Heat

Listed as Otis Taylor – Looking For Some Heat (Pentatonic Wars And Love Songs) · Watch on YouTube

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Jump to Mexico

Listed as Otis Taylor – Jump to Mexico (Fantasizing About Being Black) · Watch on YouTube

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Hey Joe (A)

Listed as Otis Taylor – Hey Joe (A) (Hey Joe Opus Red Meat) · Watch on YouTube

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Live Your Life

Listed as Otis Taylor – Live Your Life (Recapturing The Banjo) · Watch on YouTube

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Kitchen Towel

Listed as Otis Taylor – Kitchen Towel (Truth Is Not Fiction) · Watch on YouTube

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Nasty Letter

Listed as Otis Taylor – Nasty Letter (Truth Is Not Fiction) · Watch on YouTube

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Red Meat

Listed as Otis Taylor – Red Meat (Hey Joe Opus Red Meat) · Watch on YouTube

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See My Face

Listed as Otis Taylor – See My Face (Banjo...) · Watch on YouTube

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Walk on Water (feat. Ron Miles)

Listed as Otis Taylor – Walk on Water (feat. Ron Miles) (Fantasizing About Being Black) · Watch on YouTube

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Twelve String Mile (feat. Jerry Douglas & Ron Miles)

Listed as Otis Taylor – Twelve String Mile (feat. Jerry Douglas & Ron Miles) (Fantasizing About Being Black) · Watch on YouTube

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The Devil's Gonna Lie

Listed as Otis Taylor – The Devil's Gonna Lie (Otis Taylor's Contraband) · Watch on YouTube

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I Can See You're Lying

Listed as Otis Taylor – I Can See You're Lying (Otis Taylor's Contraband) · Watch on YouTube

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Coffee Women

Listed as Otis Taylor – Coffee Women (Clovis People, Vol. 3) · Watch on YouTube

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1964

Listed as Otis Taylor – 1964 (Banjo...) · Watch on YouTube

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Hey Joe (B)

Listed as Otis Taylor – Hey Joe (B) (Hey Joe Opus Red Meat) · Watch on YouTube

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Rosa, Rosa

Listed as Otis Taylor – Rosa, Rosa (Truth Is Not Fiction) · Watch on YouTube

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Look to the Side

Listed as Otis Taylor – Look to the Side (Otis Taylor's Contraband) · Watch on YouTube

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Rain So Hard

Listed as Otis Taylor – Rain So Hard (Clovis People, Vol. 3) · Watch on YouTube

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The Wind Comes In (feat. Mato Nanji)

Listed as Otis Taylor – The Wind Comes In (feat. Mato Nanji) (My World Is Gone) · Watch on YouTube

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Resurrection Blues

Listed as Otis Taylor – Resurrection Blues (Banjo...) · Watch on YouTube

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Absinthe

Listed as Otis Taylor – Absinthe (Recapturing The Banjo) · Watch on YouTube

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Buy Myself Some Freedom

Listed as Otis Taylor – Buy Myself Some Freedom (Otis Taylor Collection) · Watch on YouTube

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Hey Joe (a)

Listed as Otis Taylor – Hey Joe (a) (Hey Joe Opus Red Meat) · Watch on YouTube

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Nasty Letter

Listed as Otis Taylor – Nasty Letter (Banjo...) · Watch on YouTube

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Peggy Lee

Listed as Otis Taylor – Peggy Lee (Hey Joe Opus Red Meat) · Watch on YouTube

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Blue Rain In Africa (feat. Mato Nanji)

Listed as Otis Taylor – Blue Rain In Africa (feat. Mato Nanji) (My World Is Gone) · Watch on YouTube

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House of the Crosses

Listed as Otis Taylor – House of the Crosses (Truth Is Not Fiction) · Watch on YouTube

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Huckleberry Blues

Listed as Otis Taylor – Huckleberry Blues (My World Is Gone) · Watch on YouTube

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Open These Bars

Listed as Otis Taylor – Open These Bars (Otis Taylor's Contraband) · Watch on YouTube

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Jump out of Line

Listed as Otis Taylor – Jump out of Line (Fantasizing About Being Black) · Watch on YouTube

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Tripping on This

Listed as Otis Taylor – Tripping on This (Fantasizing About Being Black) · Watch on YouTube

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Little Willie

Listed as Otis Taylor – Little Willie (Banjo...) · Watch on YouTube

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Hey Joe

Listed as Otis Taylor – Hey Joe (Recapturing The Banjo) · Watch on YouTube

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Little Willie

Listed as Otis Taylor – Little Willie (Clovis People, Vol. 3) · Watch on YouTube

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Walk On Water

Listed as Otis Taylor – Walk On Water (Truth Is Not Fiction) · Watch on YouTube

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Yell Your Name

Listed as Otis Taylor – Yell Your Name (Otis Taylor's Contraband) · Watch on YouTube

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Lost My Horse (feat. Mato Nanji)

Listed as Otis Taylor – Lost My Horse (feat. Mato Nanji) (My World Is Gone) · Watch on YouTube

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The Heart is a Muscle (Used for the Blues)

Listed as Otis Taylor – The Heart is a Muscle (Used for the Blues) (Hey Joe Opus Red Meat) · Watch on YouTube

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My World Is Gone (feat. Mato Nanji)

Listed as Otis Taylor – My World Is Gone (feat. Mato Nanji) (My World Is Gone) · Watch on YouTube

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Prophets' Mission

Listed as Otis Taylor – Prophets' Mission (Recapturing The Banjo) · Watch on YouTube

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Mandan Woman

Listed as Otis Taylor – Mandan Woman (Otis Taylor Collection) · Watch on YouTube

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Simple Mind

Listed as Otis Taylor – Simple Mind (Recapturing The Banjo) · Watch on YouTube

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Romans Had Their Way

Listed as Otis Taylor – Romans Had Their Way (Otis Taylor's Contraband) · Watch on YouTube

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Banjo Boogie Blues

Listed as Otis Taylor – Banjo Boogie Blues (Otis Taylor's Contraband) · Watch on YouTube

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Comb Your Brown Hair

Listed as Otis Taylor – Comb Your Brown Hair (Truth Is Not Fiction) · 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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