Yes. Walter Slezak has 15 songs listed in a dataset used to train AI music models.

Used for training 15

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 The Thought of You, Octopus Song, Never Too Late for Love

Listed under the artist name 15 songs in LAION-DISCO-12M

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

The Thought of You

Listed as Ezio Pinza, Walter Slezak – The Thought of You (Fanny, The Musical) · Watch on YouTube

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Octopus Song

Listed as Ezio Pinza, Walter Slezak – Octopus Song (Fanny, The Musical) · Watch on YouTube

youtube_video AOaAMRCkeKo · row AOaAMRCkeKo

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Never Too Late for Love

Listed as Ezio Pinza, Walter Slezak – Never Too Late for Love (Fanny, The Musical) · Watch on YouTube

youtube_video AiOAr7u1L00 · row AiOAr7u1L00

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Restless Heart

Listed as Ezio Pinza, Walter Slezak – Restless Heart (Fanny, The Musical) · Watch on YouTube

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Birthday Song

Listed as Ezio Pinza, Walter Slezak – Birthday Song (Fanny, The Musical) · Watch on YouTube

youtube_video C5W1MuHEA0U · row C5W1MuHEA0U

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Shika Shika

Listed as Ezio Pinza, Walter Slezak – Shika Shika (Fanny, The Musical) · Watch on YouTube

youtube_video HKSFfAucnO8 · row HKSFfAucnO8

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To My Wife

Listed as Ezio Pinza, Walter Slezak – To My Wife (Fanny, The Musical) · Watch on YouTube

youtube_video KWFOsR4DL7I · row KWFOsR4DL7I

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Fanny

Listed as Ezio Pinza, Walter Slezak – Fanny (Fanny, The Musical) · Watch on YouTube

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Wedding Dance

Listed as Ezio Pinza, Walter Slezak – Wedding Dance (Fanny, The Musical) · Watch on YouTube

youtube_video Rst60Q7fYUg · row Rst60Q7fYUg

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Montage

Listed as Ezio Pinza, Walter Slezak – Montage (Fanny, The Musical) · Watch on YouTube

youtube_video UctVTUPLpWo · row UctVTUPLpWo

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Finale Act 1

Listed as Ezio Pinza, Walter Slezak – Finale Act 1 (Fanny, The Musical) · Watch on YouTube

youtube_video ag5mE8uj-h8 · row ag5mE8uj-h8

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Panisse and Son

Listed as Ezio Pinza, Walter Slezak – Panisse and Son (Fanny, The Musical) · Watch on YouTube

youtube_video n3rcLBnVfYY · row n3rcLBnVfYY

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I Have to Tell You

Listed as Ezio Pinza, Walter Slezak – I Have to Tell You (Fanny, The Musical) · Watch on YouTube

youtube_video nMhkgFfXpeY · row nMhkgFfXpeY

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Be Kind to Your Parents

Listed as Ezio Pinza, Walter Slezak – Be Kind to Your Parents (Fanny, The Musical) · Watch on YouTube

youtube_video vaA3kD5g0Xc · row vaA3kD5g0Xc

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Overture

Listed as Ezio Pinza, Walter Slezak – Overture (Fanny, The Musical) · Watch on YouTube

youtube_video xAS8uICGWmM · row xAS8uICGWmM

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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.