Eight Mile Style and Martin Affiliated sue Suno over alleged AI training use

Eight Mile Style says it owns and administers musical compositions and holds exclusive rights, including the right to license them.[1] The works named in the complaint include “Lose Yourself,” “Without Me,” “Till I Collapse,” “The Real Slim Shady” and “Stan.”[1] Eight Mile Style alleges Suno used its works to train its AI system without authorization.[1] The complaint says Suno admitted copying essentially all music files of reasonable quality available on the open internet to train its generator, and describes its training dataset as containing tens of millions of songs and recordings.[1] These are claims and descriptions presented in the complaint, not a court ruling.

The case brings claims for direct copyright infringement, circumvention of protection measures, and removal or alteration of copyright management information.[1] The complaint seeks up to $150,000 in statutory copyright damages for each of 269 works, totaling $40.35 million.[2] It separately seeks up to $2,500 per violation for alleged circumvention, totaling $672,500, and up to $25,000 per violation for alleged removal or alteration of copyright information, totaling $6.725 million.[2] The complaint alleges that Suno removed copyright management information and trained its models to disregard it.[1] The stated amounts are requests, not damages awarded by a court.

The complaint describes Suno as a freemium service with some free access and paid monthly subscriptions.[1] It says the platform can generate a complete song with instrumentals, vocals and generated lyrics, and alleges users could create complete songs based on the allegedly unauthorized copies for $10 per month.[1] The complaint also alleges Suno has more than 100 million users.[1] These details frame the publishers’ claims about the platform’s operation and reach; they do not establish that any particular user created a song using a particular copyrighted work.

The case was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, under case number 3:26-cv-13399.[1][3] Eminem News says the publishers filed the lawsuit on November 6, 2026, while the Detroit Free Press reported it was filed late Friday night in San Francisco federal court.[2][4] The Detroit Free Press characterized the suit as part of a growing wave of litigation targeting Suno by major music-industry players.[4] Eminem is not a party to the lawsuit, according to Eminem News.[2]