Yes. Sonny Sharrock has 9 songs listed in a dataset used to train AI music models.

Used for training 9

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 Piece 3, Piece 5, Don’t Be a Cry Baby Whatever You Do

Listed under the artist name 9 songs in LAION-DISCO-12M

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

Piece 3

Listed as Peter Brotzmann, Sonny Sharrock, Nicky Skopelitis, Jan Kazda – Piece 3 (No Material) · Watch on YouTube

youtube_video 2qk0EmMihPE · row 2qk0EmMihPE

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Piece 5

Listed as Peter Brotzmann, Sonny Sharrock, Nicky Skopelitis, Jan Kazda – Piece 5 (No Material) · Watch on YouTube

youtube_video 5X5Dp9yH3TE · row 5X5Dp9yH3TE

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Don’t Be a Cry Baby Whatever You Do

Listed as Last Exit, Bill Laswell, Sonny Sharrock, Ronald Shannon Jackson – Don’t Be a Cry Baby Whatever You Do (Headfirst Into The Flames) · Watch on YouTube

youtube_video 88ugYoaRChQ · row 88ugYoaRChQ

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Jesus! What Gorgeous Monkeys We Are

Listed as Sonny Sharrock, Last Exit, Ronald Shannon Jackson, Peter Brotzmann – Jesus! What Gorgeous Monkeys We Are (Headfirst Into The Flames) · Watch on YouTube

youtube_video EcHctfCi6y4 · row EcHctfCi6y4

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Hanged Man Are Always Naked

Listed as Sonny Sharrock, Bill Laswell, Peter Brotzmann, Ronald Shannon Jackson – Hanged Man Are Always Naked (Headfirst Into The Flames) · Watch on YouTube

youtube_video UFqn6mFfvYo · row UFqn6mFfvYo

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Lizard Eyes

Listed as Peter Brotzmann, Bill Laswell, Last Exit, Sonny Sharrock – Lizard Eyes (Headfirst Into The Flames) · Watch on YouTube

youtube_video bWdKQ4no_20 · row bWdKQ4no_20

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Piece 2

Listed as Peter Brotzmann, Sonny Sharrock, Nicky Skopelitis, Jan Kazda – Piece 2 (No Material) · Watch on YouTube

youtube_video by7EkQtxV10 · row by7EkQtxV10

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Dishy Billy

Listed as Peter Brotzmann, Sonny Sharrock, Nicky Skopelitis, Jan Kazda – Dishy Billy (No Material) · Watch on YouTube

youtube_video djnz3O5_eQg · row djnz3O5_eQg

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So Small, So Weak, This Bloody Sweat of Loving

Listed as Sonny Sharrock, Peter Brotzmann, Bill Laswell, Ronald Shannon Jackson – So Small, So Weak, This Bloody Sweat of Loving (Headfirst Into The Flames) · Watch on YouTube

youtube_video vueFOvsr3bA · row vueFOvsr3bA

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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.