Report Smithsonian Folklife built from the datasets alone

Yes. Smithsonian Folklife has 7 videos listed in datasets used to train and test AI models.

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Used for training and testing 7

videos in AudioSet

A list of about a million ten-second YouTube clips, each labelled with the sounds in it, that Google published in 2017. Labs use it to train and test general audio and music models.

Including Sweet Heaven Kings: The Sounds of Sunday Morning, Ellie Mannette: Father of the Modern Steel Drum, Joropo Music and Dance with Cabrestero

AudioSet 7 videos, 7 rows

Sweet Heaven Kings: The Sounds of Sunday Morning

Clip 30s to 40s · Open clip on YouTube · Labels: Music, Rattle

youtube_video WHSe2LcuCdg · row balanced_train:WHSe2LcuCdg:30:40

AudioSetbalanced_train

Ellie Mannette: Father of the Modern Steel Drum

Clip 30s to 40s · Open clip on YouTube · Labels: Drum, Percussion

youtube_video 23Bp59xfAUw · row unbalanced_train:23Bp59xfAUw:30:40

AudioSetunbalanced_train

Joropo Music and Dance with Cabrestero

Clip 30s to 40s · Open clip on YouTube · Labels: Music, Soul music

youtube_video 48mejm4RQ4g · row unbalanced_train:48mejm4RQ4g:30:40

AudioSetunbalanced_train

Two Fiddle Styles, Mariachi and Western Swing

Clip 30s to 40s · Open clip on YouTube · Labels: Swing music, Music, Violin, fiddle

youtube_video PAU3dDKV_s4 · row unbalanced_train:PAU3dDKV_s4:30:40

AudioSetunbalanced_train

Alice Gu-Zheng Ensemble, Chinese Zither

Clip 30s to 40s · Open clip on YouTube · Labels: Zither, Pizzicato

youtube_video _R42p8lr6FA · row unbalanced_train:_R42p8lr6FA:30:40

AudioSetunbalanced_train

Origin of the Erhu and Other Chinese String Instruments

Clip 30s to 40s · Open clip on YouTube · Labels: Music, Musical instrument, Speech, Bowed string instrument, Outside, rural or natural

youtube_video ecV0kDpuFpo · row unbalanced_train:ecV0kDpuFpo:30:40

AudioSetunbalanced_train

Performance by Hungarian Zither Maker Tibor Gats

Clip 30s to 40s · Open clip on YouTube · Labels: Zither, Pizzicato

youtube_video jE-GmkkXlUY · row unbalanced_train:jE-GmkkXlUY:30:40

AudioSetunbalanced_train

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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Provenance

JSON export SHA-256 487771eb4c5fce959dc505a5cb4211dfb0337ce33c9a46be693f90627eda236d

Dataset versions indexed

Dataset	File	Rows	Loaded	SHA-256
audioset	balanced_train_segments.csv	8,836	2026-09-24T10:30:36+00:00	`3b83e5ff9ed72cfd…`
audioset	eval_segments.csv	7,848	2026-09-24T10:30:36+00:00	`f7055f53935f70e7…`
audioset	unbalanced_train_segments.csv	1,063,333	2026-09-24T10:30:43+00:00	`bb2dfd5e4f1ced39…`
laion_disco_12m	train-00000-of-00005.parquet	2,464,184	2026-09-24T12:18:19+00:00	`f8b1f0034f8f1e94…`
laion_disco_12m	train-00001-of-00005.parquet	2,464,183	2026-09-24T12:32:29+00:00	`71d78ad14ee3f85d…`
laion_disco_12m	train-00002-of-00005.parquet	2,464,183	2026-09-24T12:49:06+00:00	`0feba570a0e8e73c…`
laion_disco_12m	train-00003-of-00005.parquet	2,464,183	2026-09-24T13:06:37+00:00	`21a77d99fd85ad2f…`
laion_disco_12m	train-00004-of-00005.parquet	2,464,183	2026-09-24T13:24:36+00:00	`6ac5f59958b6b813…`
musiccaps	musiccaps-public.csv	5,521	2026-09-24T10:29:42+00:00	`8cc109ac507b5e5a…`

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