Eminem’s Publisher Sues Suno Over 269 Songs, Seeks $40M

The fight over A.I. and music just hit one of hip-hop’s biggest catalogs. Eight Mile Style, the publisher that controls hundreds of Eminem’s songs, has sued A.I. music platform Suno in federal court, accusing the company of using 269 of his compositions to train its models without permission or payment.

The lawsuit, filed November 6 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, names classics like “Lose Yourself,” “The Real Slim Shady,” “Stan,” “Without Me” and “Till I Collapse.” The publisher says Suno scraped the songs and lyrics, and points to a Suno-generated track that allegedly copied “Lose Yourself” word for word. It is seeking up to $150,000 per work — more than $40 million in all — plus the destruction of the unauthorized copies.

To be clear, Eminem himself is not a plaintiff; this is a publishing-rights case, and the claims are allegations, not court findings. Suno says it prohibits unauthorized uses of artists’ work. The suit was filed the same day Elvis Presley’s rights holders brought their own case against the platform.

However it ends, the ruling could set the rules for how A.I. companies use the music that raised generations of fans — and the whole industry is watching.

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