The flow of copyright-infringement lawsuits aimed at AI-music service Suno isn’t letting up yet. Two new legal actions have been added to the pile: from a group of Elvis Presley rights-owners and Eminem publisher Eight Mile Style.
Variety has the details of both lawsuits, with the Presley case focusing on alleged violations of Tennessee’s Ensuring Likeness Voice and Image Security Act (Yes, ELVIS – the 2024 legislation’s acronym was crafted in Presley’s honour).
Eight Mile Style’s case is focused on songs and lyrics from Eminem’s publishing catalogue. The attorneys in both cases include Richard Busch, Mark Block, David Niemierzycki and Andrew Davis, who have become prominent figures in music-industry cases against Suno and other AI firms.
Eight Mile Style has a long history of targeting tech firms that it believes have infringed the rights in its catalogue. Meanwhile, the group of Elvis Presley rights-owners recently sued Anthropic over the training of its Claude models.
The Presley lawsuit is one of the first big tests of the ELVIS Act, although it was previously cited in 2025 in a case involving Johnny Cash’s estate, Coca-Cola and a ‘soundalike’ artist used for a commercial.
The copyright lawsuits are essentially a growing queue of rightsholders staking their claims for any future settlement(s) by Suno as it tries to establish itself as a legitimate partner to the music industry.
However, it’s the voice and likeness lawsuits (see also the case recently filed by musicians including David Lowery and Jason Isbell) that may present a bigger challenge to the way Suno operates. Not least because they could establish a different set of entities – musicians, estates and voice/image/likeness IP owners – who it may need to broker settlements with.