Yes. William Hayward has 10 songs listed in a dataset used to train AI music models.

Used for training 10

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 I don't know how I got by, Puccini: La Bohème / Act 1: Che gelida manina [La Boheme], Leoncavallo: Pagliacci / Act 1: "Vesti la giubba"

Listed under the artist name 10 songs in LAION-DISCO-12M

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

I don't know how I got by

Listed as Russell Watson, London Session Orchestra, William Hayward – I don't know how I got by (The Voice of Russell Watson - 20 Years) · Watch on YouTube

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Puccini: La Bohème / Act 1: Che gelida manina [La Boheme]

Listed as Russell Watson, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, William Hayward, Giacomo Puccini – Puccini: La Bohème / Act 1: Che gelida manina [La Boheme] (Amore - The Opera Album) · Watch on YouTube

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Leoncavallo: Pagliacci / Act 1: "Vesti la giubba"

Listed as Russell Watson, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, William Hayward – Leoncavallo: Pagliacci / Act 1: "Vesti la giubba" (The Voice of Russell Watson - 20 Years) · Watch on YouTube

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Funiculì, funiculà

Listed as Russell Watson, John Savannah, The Metro Voices, William Hayward – Funiculì, funiculà (The Voice) · Watch on YouTube

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Panis Angelicus

Listed as Russell Watson, Chamber Choir Of St. Catherine's, Bramley, Guildford, William Hayward, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra – Panis Angelicus (The Voice) · Watch on YouTube

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Puccini: Tosca / Act 3: E lucevan le stelle [Tosca]

Listed as Russell Watson, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, William Hayward, Giacomo Puccini – Puccini: Tosca / Act 3: E lucevan le stelle [Tosca] (Amore - The Opera Album) · Watch on YouTube

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Massenet: Werther / Act 3: "Pourquoi me réveiller, ô souffle du printemps?"

Listed as Russell Watson, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, William Hayward – Massenet: Werther / Act 3: "Pourquoi me réveiller, ô souffle du printemps?" (The Voice of Russell Watson - 20 Years) · Watch on YouTube

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Verdi: Rigoletto / Act 1: "Questa o quella" (Ballata)

Listed as Russell Watson, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, William Hayward – Verdi: Rigoletto / Act 1: "Questa o quella" (Ballata) (The Voice of Russell Watson - 20 Years) · Watch on YouTube

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Puccini: Tosca / Act 1: "Recondita armonia"

Listed as Russell Watson, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, William Hayward – Puccini: Tosca / Act 1: "Recondita armonia" (The Voice of Russell Watson - 20 Years) · Watch on YouTube

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Baracolle (From “The Tales of Hoffmann”)

Listed as Katherine Jenkins, The Czech Film Orchestra, William Hayward, Jacques Offenbach – Baracolle (From “The Tales of Hoffmann”) (Katherine Jenkins / Second Nature) · 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.