Yes. Willie Max has 14 songs listed in a dataset used to train AI music models.

Used for training 14

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 24 (feat. Raphael Saadiq), Color Me You, Bona Fide

Listed under the artist name 14 songs in LAION-DISCO-12M

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

24 (feat. Raphael Saadiq)

Listed as Willie Max – 24 (feat. Raphael Saadiq) (Bona Fide) · Watch on YouTube

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Color Me You

Listed as Willie Max – Color Me You (Bona Fide) · Watch on YouTube

youtube_video GQ5_WG0pV2s · row GQ5_WG0pV2s

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Bona Fide

Listed as Willie Max – Bona Fide (Bona Fide) · Watch on YouTube

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Regtrek Kwela

Listed as Willie Max & His Band – Regtrek Kwela (Sent For You Yesterday (Kwela Jive & Jazz from South Africa - Original recordings 1954 - 1956)) · Watch on YouTube

youtube_video Ij_DimvexcY · row Ij_DimvexcY

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Always

Listed as Willie Max – Always (Bona Fide) · Watch on YouTube

youtube_video P1xx4vxm08g · row P1xx4vxm08g

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Never Comin' Back

Listed as Willie Max – Never Comin' Back (Bona Fide) · Watch on YouTube

youtube_video P5hHFUs08-A · row P5hHFUs08-A

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Play Thang

Listed as Willie Max – Play Thang (Bona Fide) · Watch on YouTube

youtube_video RImYkxX3KIs · row RImYkxX3KIs

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Duddy

Listed as Willie Max – Duddy (Bona Fide) · Watch on YouTube

youtube_video i0zRirBEt20 · row i0zRirBEt20

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Sukie Sukie

Listed as Willie Max – Sukie Sukie (Bona Fide) · Watch on YouTube

youtube_video iT8FEnbvjDw · row iT8FEnbvjDw

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Hot Toddy

Listed as Willie Max & His Band – Hot Toddy (Kwela Bangazi (Kwela Jive & Jazz from South Africa - Original Recordings 1956 - 1957)) · Watch on YouTube

youtube_video lGeaHRaqxkk · row lGeaHRaqxkk

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Everything

Listed as Willie Max – Everything (Bona Fide) · Watch on YouTube

youtube_video pvhDhkCo1zc · row pvhDhkCo1zc

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Can't Get Enough (feat. Raphael Saadiq)

Listed as Willie Max – Can't Get Enough (feat. Raphael Saadiq) (Bona Fide) · Watch on YouTube

youtube_video tAVvpC0dOQM · row tAVvpC0dOQM

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I'm Not Your Girlfriend

Listed as Willie Max – I'm Not Your Girlfriend (Bona Fide) · Watch on YouTube

youtube_video xqMi7NKAI4s · row xqMi7NKAI4s

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Just Believe

Listed as Willie Max – Just Believe (Bona Fide) · 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.