EMINEM'S PUBLISHER SUES SUNO FOR $41 MILLION — AI COPIED 269 SONGS

Eight Mile Style, the Ferndale publisher that controls the rights to 269 Eminem compositions, sued the AI music generator Suno in San Francisco federal court late Friday, November 6, seeking more than $41 million. The complaint says Suno copied the catalog to train its model without permission, then let users generate songs and lyrics resembling Eminem's work.

The damages math is blunt: $150,000 per song, the statutory maximum for willful infringement, adds up to $40.4 million, plus $672,000 for allegedly stripping the copyright information embedded in the files. The suit points to Suno-generated tracks that reproduce “Lose Yourself” lyrics verbatim and one track whose vocals are, the publisher contends, “clearly derived from Eminem’s actual voice.”

Suno told the Free Press it blocks prompts naming specific artists and screens uploads for misuse — but the complaint says the guardrails are easily bypassed, since users can summon a “Slim Shady”-style track with genre terms alone. Suno has previously disclosed in court that its model was trained on “essentially all music files of reasonable quality that are accessible on the open Internet.”