Yes. Tim Janis 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 O Christmas Tree, Away in a Manger, Deck the Halls

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.

O Christmas Tree

Listed as Open Road Folk Music, Tim Janis – O Christmas Tree (Heading Home for Christmas) · Watch on YouTube

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Away in a Manger

Listed as Open Road Folk Music, Tim Janis – Away in a Manger (Heading Home for Christmas) · Watch on YouTube

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Deck the Halls

Listed as Open Road Folk Music, Tim Janis – Deck the Halls (Heading Home for Christmas) · Watch on YouTube

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The First Noel

Listed as Open Road Folk Music, Tim Janis – The First Noel (Heading Home for Christmas) · Watch on YouTube

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Good King Wenceslas

Listed as Open Road Folk Music, Tim Janis – Good King Wenceslas (Heading Home for Christmas) · Watch on YouTube

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Joy to the World

Listed as Open Road Folk Music, Tim Janis – Joy to the World (Heading Home for Christmas) · Watch on YouTube

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Home Town USA

Listed as Tim Janis, Jeff Bates – Home Town USA (Home Town USA) · Watch on YouTube

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In the Bleak Midwinter

Listed as Open Road Folk Music, Tim Janis – In the Bleak Midwinter (Heading Home for Christmas) · Watch on YouTube

youtube_video On-QHTV6wpw · row On-QHTV6wpw

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Hark The Herald Angels Sing

Listed as Open Road Folk Music, Tim Janis – Hark The Herald Angels Sing (Heading Home for Christmas) · Watch on YouTube

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Silent Night

Listed as Open Road Folk Music, Tim Janis – Silent Night (Heading Home for Christmas) · Watch on YouTube

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O Holy Night

Listed as Open Road Folk Music, Tim Janis – O Holy Night (Heading Home for Christmas) · 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.