Elvis and Eminem rights holders sue Suno over AI soundalikes

The Presley group, which includes Authentic Brands Group, filed a 51-page complaint in the Northern District of California, Variety reports. It claims copyright infringement and a breach of Tennessee’s ELVIS Act, a 2024 law that protects a person’s voice from unauthorised AI copies. Eight Mile Style says users can generate songs and lyrics that mirror tracks such as Lose Yourself. Eminem himself is not a party.

Suno told The Verge it does not allow prompts that name specific artists or songs, and that it screens uploaded audio and lyrics. A suit led by the singer Jason Isbell in September says users get round that block by asking for an artist’s tone and phrasing, or by spacing out the letters of a name.

Suno also faces suits from Sony Music, Universal Music Group, Round Hill and Reservoir, while Warner Music Group settled in 2025, Variety reports.

Our rights table, checked 24 October, shows a voice tool drawing the same line in its own terms. ElevenLabs’ Prohibited Use Policy of 9 October 2026 bars cloning a living person’s voice or likeness without their explicit, informed consent, and the table marks using someone else’s likeness as conditional on that consent.

Suno says its filter blocks names in prompts, and both suits target what comes out: the voice and the lyrics. A soundalike can pass the filter and still be what both suits describe.