Yes. Will Ackerman has 137 songs listed in a dataset used to train AI music models.

Used for training 137

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 Dolphin Song, Dance For The Death Of A Bird, The Search for the Turtle's Navel

Listed under the artist name 137 songs in LAION-DISCO-12M

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

Dolphin Song

Listed as Todd Mosby, Trevor Gordon Hall, Will Ackerman – Dolphin Song (Four Guitars) · Watch on YouTube

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Dance For The Death Of A Bird

Listed as William Ackerman – Dance For The Death Of A Bird (In Search Of The Turtle's Navel) · Watch on YouTube

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The Search for the Turtle's Navel

Listed as Will Ackerman – The Search for the Turtle's Navel (It Takes A Year) · Watch on YouTube

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Seattle

Listed as William Ackerman – Seattle (Childhood and Memory (Pieces for Guitar)) · Watch on YouTube

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A Koan from Hugh

Listed as Will Ackerman – A Koan from Hugh (New England Roads) · Watch on YouTube

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Murray's Song

Listed as Will Ackerman – Murray's Song (Pure Will Ackerman) · Watch on YouTube

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Before We Left This All Behind (feat. Happy Rhodes)

Listed as Will Ackerman – Before We Left This All Behind (feat. Happy Rhodes) (Hearing Voices) · Watch on YouTube

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The Velvet Gentleman

Listed as William Ackerman – The Velvet Gentleman (Childhood and Memory (Pieces for Guitar)) · Watch on YouTube

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The Second Great Tortion Bar Overland Of West Townshend, Vermont, Jose Pepsi Attending

Listed as William Ackerman – The Second Great Tortion Bar Overland Of West Townshend, Vermont, Jose Pepsi Attending (In Search Of The Turtle's Navel) · Watch on YouTube

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The Blue Hour

Listed as Trevor Gordon Hall, Vin Downes, Will Ackerman – The Blue Hour (Four Guitars) · Watch on YouTube

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Barbara's Song

Listed as William Ackerman – Barbara's Song (Returning) · Watch on YouTube

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Processional

Listed as Will Ackerman – Processional (Conferring With the Moon) · Watch on YouTube

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This Clearness Of Light

Listed as Will Ackerman – This Clearness Of Light (Winter's Solstice VI) · Watch on YouTube

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Walk With Me

Listed as Will Ackerman – Walk With Me (New England Roads) · Watch on YouTube

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Unconditional

Listed as William Ackerman – Unconditional (Returning) · Watch on YouTube

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The Wall and the Wind

Listed as William Ackerman – The Wall and the Wind (Childhood and Memory (Pieces for Guitar)) · Watch on YouTube

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Up There Throughout the Skies

Listed as Will Ackerman – Up There Throughout the Skies (Meditations) · Watch on YouTube

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A Tribute to the Philosophy of James Estell Bradley

Listed as Will Ackerman – A Tribute to the Philosophy of James Estell Bradley (It Takes A Year) · Watch on YouTube

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Childhood and Memory

Listed as William Ackerman – Childhood and Memory (Childhood and Memory (Pieces for Guitar)) · Watch on YouTube

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Windham Mary

Listed as William Ackerman – Windham Mary (In Search Of The Turtle's Navel) · Watch on YouTube

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What Strangers Are These

Listed as Will Ackerman, Vin Downes – What Strangers Are These (Four Guitars) · Watch on YouTube

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Briars Above The Well (feat. Jaya Lakshmi)

Listed as Will Ackerman – Briars Above The Well (feat. Jaya Lakshmi) (Hearing Voices) · Watch on YouTube

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Unconditional

Listed as Will Ackerman, Trevor Gordon Hall – Unconditional (Four Guitars) · Watch on YouTube

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Hawk Circle

Listed as Will Ackerman – Hawk Circle (A Windham Hill Retrospective) · Watch on YouTube

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Hawk Circle

Listed as Will Ackerman – Hawk Circle (Sound Of Wind Driven Rain) · Watch on YouTube

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Shape of the Land

Listed as Will Ackerman – Shape of the Land (Conferring With the Moon) · Watch on YouTube

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Hawk Circle

Listed as Will Ackerman, Vin Downes, Todd Mosby, Trevor Gordon Hall – Hawk Circle (Four Guitars) · Watch on YouTube

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Rain Sequence (From the Townshend Shuffle)

Listed as Will Ackerman – Rain Sequence (From the Townshend Shuffle) (It Takes A Year) · Watch on YouTube

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Garage Planet

Listed as Will Ackerman – Garage Planet (Conferring With the Moon) · Watch on YouTube

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August Light

Listed as Todd Mosby, Vin Downes, Trevor Gordon Hall, Will Ackerman – August Light (Four Guitars) · Watch on YouTube

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Ely

Listed as William Ackerman – Ely (In Search Of The Turtle's Navel) · Watch on YouTube

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Walk With Me (feat. Heather Rankin)

Listed as Will Ackerman – Walk With Me (feat. Heather Rankin) (Hearing Voices) · Watch on YouTube

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The Townshend Shuffle

Listed as Will Ackerman – The Townshend Shuffle (It Takes A Year) · Watch on YouTube

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Conferring With the Moon (Solo)

Listed as Will Ackerman – Conferring With the Moon (Solo) (Conferring With the Moon) · Watch on YouTube

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Gazos

Listed as William Ackerman – Gazos (In Search Of The Turtle's Navel) · Watch on YouTube

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The Impending Death of the Virgin Spirit

Listed as Will Ackerman – The Impending Death of the Virgin Spirit (Meditations) · Watch on YouTube

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What The Buzzard Told Suzanne

Listed as William Ackerman – What The Buzzard Told Suzanne (In Search Of The Turtle's Navel) · 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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