Yes. The Imperials has 160 songs listed in a dataset used to train AI music models.

Used for training 160

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 Overcomer, Be Still My Soul, Let Jesus Do It For You

Listed under the artist name 160 songs in LAION-DISCO-12M

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

Overcomer

Listed as Russ Taff, The Imperials – Overcomer (Beginnings) · Watch on YouTube

youtube_video -1O7xN4yEL8 · row -1O7xN4yEL8

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Be Still My Soul

Listed as Russ Taff, The Imperials – Be Still My Soul (Beginnings) · Watch on YouTube

youtube_video 1ZzNCKpdMKo · row 1ZzNCKpdMKo

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Let Jesus Do It For You

Listed as Russ Taff, The Imperials – Let Jesus Do It For You (Beginnings) · Watch on YouTube

youtube_video 2VH_I1Tnci8 · row 2VH_I1Tnci8

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Any Good Time At All

Listed as Russ Taff, The Imperials – Any Good Time At All (Beginnings) · Watch on YouTube

youtube_video 3E6biACWJrw · row 3E6biACWJrw

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Closer Than Ever

Listed as Russ Taff, The Imperials – Closer Than Ever (Beginnings) · Watch on YouTube

youtube_video L-QWsxbgtXc · row L-QWsxbgtXc

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What I Can Do For You

Listed as Russ Taff, The Imperials – What I Can Do For You (Beginnings) · Watch on YouTube

youtube_video WJOAEm2D2e4 · row WJOAEm2D2e4

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Higher Power

Listed as Russ Taff, The Imperials – Higher Power (Beginnings) · Watch on YouTube

youtube_video WmxtTo0YfwY · row WmxtTo0YfwY

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I'm Forgiven

Listed as Russ Taff, The Imperials – I'm Forgiven (Beginnings) · Watch on YouTube

youtube_video jE5BDogyR2o · row jE5BDogyR2o

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Eagle Song

Listed as Russ Taff, The Imperials – Eagle Song (Beginnings) · Watch on YouTube

youtube_video jgysSZXjZi0 · row jgysSZXjZi0

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Finish What You Started

Listed as Russ Taff, The Imperials – Finish What You Started (Beginnings) · Watch on YouTube

youtube_video nOzFuNMZRyI · row nOzFuNMZRyI

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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.