Yes. Stephen Layton has 167 songs listed in a dataset used to train AI music models.

Used for training 167

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 Vaughan Williams: Come Away, Death, Barber: Reincarnations, Op. 16: II. Anthony O'Daly, Gjeilo: Phoenix (2008)

Listed under the artist name 167 songs in LAION-DISCO-12M

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

Vaughan Williams: Come Away, Death

Listed as Stephen Layton, Holst Singers, Ralph Vaughan Williams – Vaughan Williams: Come Away, Death (Vaughan Williams: Over Hill, Over Dale – Partsongs, Folksongs & Shakespeare Settings) · Watch on YouTube

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Barber: Reincarnations, Op. 16: II. Anthony O'Daly

Listed as Stephen Layton, Polyphony, Samuel Barber – Barber: Reincarnations, Op. 16: II. Anthony O'Daly (American Polyphony: Barber, Copland, Bernstein, R. Thompson) · Watch on YouTube

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Gjeilo: Phoenix (2008)

Listed as The Choir of Trinity College Cambridge, Stephen Layton, Ola Gjeilo – Gjeilo: Phoenix (2008) (Beyond All Mortal Dreams – American A Cappella Choral Works) · Watch on YouTube

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Tavener: The Protecting Veil - The Protecting Veil

Listed as Natalie Clein, English Chamber Orchestra, Stephen Layton – Tavener: The Protecting Veil - The Protecting Veil (The John Tavener Collection) · Watch on YouTube

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Rutter: Jesus Child

Listed as Stephen Layton, City of London Sinfonia, Polyphony, John Rutter – Rutter: Jesus Child (John Rutter: Music for Christmas) · Watch on YouTube

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Vaughan Williams: Loch Lomond

Listed as Michael George, Stephen Layton, Holst Singers, Ralph Vaughan Williams – Vaughan Williams: Loch Lomond (Vaughan Williams: Over Hill, Over Dale – Partsongs, Folksongs & Shakespeare Settings) · Watch on YouTube

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Vaughan Williams: 3 Elizabethan Songs: I. Sweet Day

Listed as Stephen Layton, Holst Singers, Ralph Vaughan Williams – Vaughan Williams: 3 Elizabethan Songs: I. Sweet Day (Vaughan Williams: Over Hill, Over Dale – Partsongs, Folksongs & Shakespeare Settings) · Watch on YouTube

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Łukaszewski: Via Crucis: Station 14: Post haec autem rogavit Pilatum Joseph

Listed as Britten Sinfonia, Stephen Layton, Roger Allam, Paweł Łukaszewski – Łukaszewski: Via Crucis: Station 14: Post haec autem rogavit Pilatum Joseph (Łukaszewski: Via Crucis) · Watch on YouTube

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Rimsky-Korsakov: Otche nash "Our Father", Op. 22 No. 7

Listed as Holst Singers, Stephen Layton, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov – Rimsky-Korsakov: Otche nash "Our Father", Op. 22 No. 7 (Ikon, Vol. 2: Sacred Choral Music from Russia & Eastern Europe) · Watch on YouTube

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Barber: Reincarnations, Op. 16: III. The Coolin'

Listed as Polyphony, Stephen Layton, Samuel Barber – Barber: Reincarnations, Op. 16: III. The Coolin' (American Polyphony: Barber, Copland, Bernstein, R. Thompson) · Watch on YouTube

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Barber: 2 Pieces, Op. 42: No. 1, Twelfth Night

Listed as Polyphony, Stephen Layton, Samuel Barber – Barber: 2 Pieces, Op. 42: No. 1, Twelfth Night (American Polyphony: Barber, Copland, Bernstein, R. Thompson) · Watch on YouTube

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Rutter: The Very Best Time of Year

Listed as Stephen Layton, City of London Sinfonia, Polyphony, John Rutter – Rutter: The Very Best Time of Year (John Rutter: Music for Christmas) · Watch on YouTube

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Tavener: The Protecting Veil - The Dormition Of The Mother Of God

Listed as Natalie Clein, English Chamber Orchestra, Stephen Layton – Tavener: The Protecting Veil - The Dormition Of The Mother Of God (The John Tavener Collection) · Watch on YouTube

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Barber: 2 Pieces, Op. 42: No. 2, To Be Sung on the Water

Listed as Polyphony, Stephen Layton, Samuel Barber – Barber: 2 Pieces, Op. 42: No. 2, To Be Sung on the Water (American Polyphony: Barber, Copland, Bernstein, R. Thompson) · Watch on YouTube

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Gjeilo: Sanctus (2008)

Listed as Stephen Layton, The Choir of Trinity College Cambridge, Ola Gjeilo – Gjeilo: Sanctus (2008) (Beyond All Mortal Dreams – American A Cappella Choral Works) · Watch on YouTube

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Agnus Dei, Op. 11/2 (Vocal Version of Adagio for Strings)

Listed as Polyphony, Stephen Layton, Samuel Barber – Agnus Dei, Op. 11/2 (Vocal Version of Adagio for Strings) (American Polyphony: Barber, Copland, Bernstein, R. Thompson) · Watch on YouTube

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Vaughan Williams: 5 English Folk Songs: V. Wassail Song

Listed as Stephen Layton, Holst Singers, Ralph Vaughan Williams – Vaughan Williams: 5 English Folk Songs: V. Wassail Song (Vaughan Williams: Over Hill, Over Dale – Partsongs, Folksongs & Shakespeare Settings) · 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.