Yes. Ricky Ford has 20 songs listed in a dataset used to train AI music models.

Used for training 20

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 Tuang Guru, You Don't Know What Love Is, I'll See You Again

Listed under the artist name 20 songs in LAION-DISCO-12M

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

Tuang Guru

Listed as David Williams, Carlos Ward, Ricky Ford, Abdullah Ibrahim – Tuang Guru (Water from an Ancient Well) · Watch on YouTube

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You Don't Know What Love Is

Listed as Billy Higgins, Larry Willis, Ricky Ford, Buster Williams – You Don't Know What Love Is (Love Light) · Watch on YouTube

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I'll See You Again

Listed as Billy Higgins, Larry Willis, Ricky Ford, Buster Williams – I'll See You Again (Love Light) · Watch on YouTube

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African Songbird

Listed as Buster Williams, Billy Higgins, Larry Willis, Ricky Ford – African Songbird (Love Light) · Watch on YouTube

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Long Ago And Far Away

Listed as Billy Higgins, Larry Willis, Ricky Ford, Buster Williams – Long Ago And Far Away (Love Light) · Watch on YouTube

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Mandela

Listed as Carlos Ward, David Williams, Ricky Ford, Abdullah Ibrahim – Mandela (Water from an Ancient Well) · Watch on YouTube

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Mon Amour

Listed as Ben Riley, Jaki Byard, Milt Hinton, Ricky Ford – Mon Amour (Ebony Rhapsody) · Watch on YouTube

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Ebony Rhapsody

Listed as Ben Riley, Jaki Byard, Milt Hinton, Ricky Ford – Ebony Rhapsody (Ebony Rhapsody) · Watch on YouTube

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Setting Sun Blues

Listed as Ben Riley, Jaki Byard, Milt Hinton, Ricky Ford – Setting Sun Blues (Ebony Rhapsody) · Watch on YouTube

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Red, Crack and Blue

Listed as Ben Riley, Jaki Byard, Milt Hinton, Ricky Ford – Red, Crack and Blue (Ebony Rhapsody) · Watch on YouTube

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The Mountain

Listed as David Williams, Carlos Ward, Ricky Ford, Abdullah Ibrahim – The Mountain (Water from an Ancient Well) · Watch on YouTube

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Manenberg Revisited

Listed as David Williams, Carlos Ward, Ricky Ford, Abdullah Ibrahim – Manenberg Revisited (Water from an Ancient Well) · Watch on YouTube

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Mirror Man

Listed as Ben Riley, Jaki Byard, Milt Hinton, Ricky Ford – Mirror Man (Ebony Rhapsody) · Watch on YouTube

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Broadway

Listed as Ben Riley, Jaki Byard, Milt Hinton, Ricky Ford – Broadway (Ebony Rhapsody) · Watch on YouTube

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Winnie Mandela - Beloved Heroine

Listed as Larry Willis, Ricky Ford, Buster Williams, Billy Higgins – Winnie Mandela - Beloved Heroine (Love Light) · Watch on YouTube

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You Are My Heart's Delight

Listed as Billy Higgins, Larry Willis, Ricky Ford, Buster Williams – You Are My Heart's Delight (Love Light) · Watch on YouTube

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Gift Of Love - "For Duke"

Listed as Billy Higgins, Larry Willis, Ricky Ford, Buster Williams – Gift Of Love - "For Duke" (Love Light) · Watch on YouTube

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The Wedding

Listed as David Williams, Carlos Ward, Ricky Ford, Abdullah Ibrahim – The Wedding (Water from an Ancient Well) · Watch on YouTube

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Sameeda

Listed as David Williams, Carlos Ward, Ricky Ford, Abdullah Ibrahim – Sameeda (Water from an Ancient Well) · Watch on YouTube

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Independence Blues

Listed as Ben Riley, Jaki Byard, Milt Hinton, Ricky Ford – Independence Blues (Ebony Rhapsody) · 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.