Yes. Skip James has 149 songs listed in a dataset used to train AI music models.

Used for training 149

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 Sick Bed Blues, Devil Got My Woman, Cypress Grove Blues

Listed under the artist name 149 songs in LAION-DISCO-12M

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

Sick Bed Blues

Listed as Skip James – Sick Bed Blues (Devil Got My Woman) · Watch on YouTube

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Devil Got My Woman

Listed as Skip James – Devil Got My Woman (Presenting Skip James) · Watch on YouTube

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Cypress Grove Blues

Listed as Skip James – Cypress Grove Blues (Hard Time Killing Floor Blues) · Watch on YouTube

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Goin' Away To Stay

Listed as Skip James – Goin' Away To Stay (Top 50 Classics - The Very Best of Skip James) · Watch on YouTube

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Worried Blues

Listed as Skip James – Worried Blues (Devil Got My Woman) · Watch on YouTube

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Drunken Spree

Listed as Skip James – Drunken Spree (Presenting Skip James) · Watch on YouTube

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My Black Mama, Pt. 1

Listed as Skip James – My Black Mama, Pt. 1 (Presenting Skip James) · Watch on YouTube

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Good Road Camp Blues

Listed as Skip James – Good Road Camp Blues (Devil Got My Woman) · Watch on YouTube

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Illinois Blues

Listed as Skip James – Illinois Blues (Hard Time Killing Floor Blues) · Watch on YouTube

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Sick Bed Blues

Listed as Skip James – Sick Bed Blues (Hard Time Killing Floor Blues) · Watch on YouTube

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Be Ready When He Comes

Listed as Skip James – Be Ready When He Comes (Presenting Skip James) · Watch on YouTube

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Hard Times Killing Floor Blues

Listed as Skip James – Hard Times Killing Floor Blues (Today!) · Watch on YouTube

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Lorenzo Blues

Listed as Skip James – Lorenzo Blues (Devil Got My Woman) · Watch on YouTube

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Cherryball

Listed as Skip James – Cherryball (Today!) · Watch on YouTube

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Walkin' Blues

Listed as Skip James – Walkin' Blues (Presenting Skip James) · Watch on YouTube

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Little Cow, Little Calf Blues

Listed as Skip James – Little Cow, Little Calf Blues (Devil Got My Woman) · Watch on YouTube

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Hard Luck Child

Listed as Skip James – Hard Luck Child (Times Ain't Like They Used To Be, Vol. 7: Early American Rural Music Classic Recordings Of 1920'S And 1930'S) · Watch on YouTube

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If You Haven't Got Any Hay

Listed as Skip James – If You Haven't Got Any Hay (Instinctively the Blues - Skip James) · Watch on YouTube

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Dry Spell Blues, Pt. 2

Listed as Skip James – Dry Spell Blues, Pt. 2 (Presenting Skip James) · Watch on YouTube

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Catfish Blues

Listed as Skip James – Catfish Blues (Devil Got My Woman) · Watch on YouTube

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Special Rider

Listed as Skip James – Special Rider (Legends of Country Blues (CD A)) · Watch on YouTube

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My Gal

Listed as Skip James – My Gal (Today!) · Watch on YouTube

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Hard Time Killing Floor Blues

Listed as Skip James – Hard Time Killing Floor Blues (Hard Time Killing Floor Blues) · Watch on YouTube

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22-20 Blues

Listed as Skip James – 22-20 Blues (Presenting Skip James) · Watch on YouTube

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Jesus Is a Mighty Good Leader

Listed as Skip James – Jesus Is a Mighty Good Leader (Presenting Skip James) · Watch on YouTube

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Cypress Grove Blues

Listed as Skip James – Cypress Grove Blues (Presenting Skip James) · Watch on YouTube

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Look At The People Standing At The Judgement

Listed as Skip James – Look At The People Standing At The Judgement (Devil Got My Woman) · Watch on YouTube

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I'm so Glad

Listed as Skip James – I'm so Glad (Today!) · Watch on YouTube

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Devil Got My Woman

Listed as Skip James – Devil Got My Woman (Goin' Mad Blues Vol. 3) · Watch on YouTube

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Four O'clock Blues

Listed as Skip James – Four O'clock Blues (Presenting Skip James) · Watch on YouTube

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If You Haven't Any Hay

Listed as Skip James – If You Haven't Any Hay (Roots of R & B, Vol. 1 - Way Down South) · Watch on YouTube

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Devil Got My Woman

Listed as Skip James – Devil Got My Woman (Devil Got My Woman) · Watch on YouTube

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Cypress Grove

Listed as Skip James – Cypress Grove (Today!) · Watch on YouTube

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22-20 Blues

Listed as Skip James – 22-20 Blues (Devil Got My Woman) · Watch on YouTube

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Illinois Blues

Listed as Skip James – Illinois Blues (Presenting Skip James) · Watch on YouTube

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Hard Luck Child

Listed as Skip James – Hard Luck Child (Presenting Skip James) · Watch on YouTube

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Drunken Spree

Listed as Skip James – Drunken Spree (Today!) · Watch on YouTube

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Special Rider Blues

Listed as Skip James – Special Rider Blues (Today!) · Watch on YouTube

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All Night Long

Listed as Skip James – All Night Long (Today!) · Watch on YouTube

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Washington D.C. Hospital Center Blues

Listed as Skip James – Washington D.C. Hospital Center Blues (Hard Time Killing Floor Blues) · Watch on YouTube

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I'm so Glad

Listed as Skip James – I'm so Glad (Presenting Skip James) · Watch on YouTube

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Crow Jane

Listed as Skip James – Crow Jane (Today!) · Watch on YouTube

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Hard Time Killin' Floor Blues

Listed as Skip James – Hard Time Killin' Floor Blues (Presenting Skip James) · Watch on YouTube

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Look Down the Road

Listed as Skip James – Look Down the Road (Today!) · Watch on YouTube

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Yola My Blues Away

Listed as Skip James – Yola My Blues Away (Presenting Skip James) · Watch on YouTube

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Cherry Ball Blues

Listed as Skip James – Cherry Ball Blues (Presenting Skip James) · Watch on YouTube

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How Long

Listed as Skip James – How Long (Today!) · Watch on YouTube

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Washington D.C Hospital Center Blues

Listed as Skip James – Washington D.C Hospital Center Blues (Today!) · Watch on YouTube

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My Black Mama, Pt. 2

Listed as Skip James – My Black Mama, Pt. 2 (Presenting Skip James) · Watch on YouTube

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Preachin' the Blues, Pt. 1

Listed as Skip James – Preachin' the Blues, Pt. 1 (Presenting Skip James) · 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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