Yes. The Skatalites has 161 songs listed in a dataset used to train AI music models.

Used for training 161

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 Ghost Town, Doctor Dekker (1969 Remix), Silver Dollar

Listed under the artist name 161 songs in LAION-DISCO-12M

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

Ghost Town

Listed as The Skatalites – Ghost Town (Pop Meets Bossa Nova) · Watch on YouTube

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Doctor Dekker (1969 Remix)

Listed as The Skatalites, Baba Brooks – Doctor Dekker (1969 Remix) (Memorial Album) · Watch on YouTube

youtube_video FErcBebXmTI · row FErcBebXmTI

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Silver Dollar

Listed as Don Drummond, Roland Alphonso, The Skatalites – Silver Dollar (Memorial Album) · Watch on YouTube

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Alipang (aka Alley Pon)

Listed as Roland Alphonso, Don Drummond, The Skatalites – Alipang (aka Alley Pon) (The Best of the Skatalites) · Watch on YouTube

youtube_video IESqUTBrqCY · row IESqUTBrqCY

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Corner Stone (A Trip to Mars)

Listed as Roland Alphonso, The Skatalites – Corner Stone (A Trip to Mars) (Memorial Album) · Watch on YouTube

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Stampede

Listed as Don Drummond, Baba Brooks, The Skatalites – Stampede (The Best of the Skatalites) · Watch on YouTube

youtube_video NkSAqU1eJUE · row NkSAqU1eJUE

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Boat Ride

Listed as Baba Brooks, The Skatalites – Boat Ride (Catch A-Fire: Treasure Isle Ska 1963 – 1965) · Watch on YouTube

youtube_video ObXNhqdq7do · row ObXNhqdq7do

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A Shot In The Dark (Take 2)

Listed as Roland Alphonso, The Skatalites – A Shot In The Dark (Take 2) (Top Deck Presents: Tough Talk) · Watch on YouTube

youtube_video VXD_BkEaj-M · row VXD_BkEaj-M

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Surftide Sever

Listed as The Skatalites – Surftide Sever (Music from Ja: Ska) · Watch on YouTube

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Home Home Home

Listed as The Skatalites, Ken Boothe, Stranger Cole – Home Home Home (Total Reggae: Classic Ska) · Watch on YouTube

youtube_video jpuYve7dQzc · row jpuYve7dQzc

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Feeling Fine

Listed as Roland Alphonso, The Skatalites – Feeling Fine (Memorial Album) · 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.