Yes. Ron Blake has 17 songs listed in a dataset used to train AI music models.

Used for training 17

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 Alone With Just My Dreams, Whims Of Chambers, The Charm

Listed under the artist name 17 songs in LAION-DISCO-12M

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

Alone With Just My Dreams

Listed as Rodney Whitaker, Ron Blake, Wycliffe Gordon, Stefon Harris – Alone With Just My Dreams (Ballads And Blues) · Watch on YouTube

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Whims Of Chambers

Listed as Rodney Whitaker, Ron Blake, Wycliffe Gordon, Stefon Harris – Whims Of Chambers (Ballads And Blues) · Watch on YouTube

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The Charm

Listed as Clarence Penn, John Swana, Ron Blake, Jesse van Ruller – The Charm (Play-penn) · Watch on YouTube

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For Rockelle

Listed as Rodney Whitaker, Ron Blake, Wycliffe Gordon, Stefon Harris – For Rockelle (Ballads And Blues) · Watch on YouTube

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Wise Young Man

Listed as Rodney Whitaker, Ron Blake, Wycliffe Gordon, Stefon Harris – Wise Young Man (Ballads And Blues) · Watch on YouTube

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Grace-ann

Listed as Clarence Penn, John Swana, Ron Blake, Jesse van Ruller – Grace-ann (Play-penn) · Watch on YouTube

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Christmas Song

Listed as Shirley Horn, Ron Blake, Mark Whitfield – Christmas Song (Jazz For Joy: A Verve Christmas Album) · Watch on YouTube

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Ease It

Listed as Rodney Whitaker, Ron Blake, Wycliffe Gordon, Stefon Harris – Ease It (Ballads And Blues) · Watch on YouTube

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Blues For Paris

Listed as Clarence Penn, John Swana, Ron Blake, Jesse van Ruller – Blues For Paris (Play-penn) · Watch on YouTube

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Essence

Listed as Clarence Penn, John Swana, Ron Blake, Jesse van Ruller – Essence (Play-penn) · Watch on YouTube

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Teo

Listed as Clarence Penn, John Swana, Ron Blake, Jesse van Ruller – Teo (Play-penn) · Watch on YouTube

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You Must Believe In Spring

Listed as Clarence Penn, John Swana, Ron Blake, Jesse van Ruller – You Must Believe In Spring (Play-penn) · Watch on YouTube

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Centerpiece

Listed as Rodney Whitaker, Ron Blake, Wycliffe Gordon, Stefon Harris – Centerpiece (Ballads And Blues) · Watch on YouTube

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Big Foot

Listed as Rodney Whitaker, Ron Blake, Wycliffe Gordon, Stefon Harris – Big Foot (Ballads And Blues) · Watch on YouTube

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Red Alert

Listed as Clarence Penn, John Swana, Ron Blake, Jesse van Ruller – Red Alert (Play-penn) · Watch on YouTube

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Preston's Theme

Listed as Clarence Penn, John Swana, Ron Blake, Jesse van Ruller – Preston's Theme (Play-penn) · Watch on YouTube

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Consistent-seay

Listed as Clarence Penn, John Swana, Ron Blake, Jesse van Ruller – Consistent-seay (Play-penn) · 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.