Which lawsuits does Suno face? Case table
The table lists every Suno and Udio case this site could confirm from court records, company statements or trade reporting, with status as of November 9, 2026. Dates come from the sources linked in each section below. Docket numbers for the two November 2026 suits had not been published in the reporting available on that date.
| Case | Court | Filed | Status | Issue |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UMG and Sony v. Suno (Warner dismissed) | D. Mass., 1:24-cv-11611 | June 24, 2024 | Active; fact discovery set to close Sept. 30, 2026; dispositive motions due Apr. 9, 2027 | Training on sound recordings |
| UMG and Sony v. Suno (v6) | D. Mass., 1:26-cv-14275 | Sept. 18, 2026 | Newly filed | 60,202 more recordings; v6 model |
| Eight Mile Style v. Suno | N.D. Cal. (San Francisco) | Nov. 6, 2026 | Newly filed | 269 Eminem compositions; $41M+ demand |
| Presley rights holders v. Suno | N.D. Cal. | Reported Nov. 7, 2026 | Newly filed | Copyright; Tennessee ELVIS Act |
| Justice v. Suno (artist class action) | D. Mass., 1:25-cv-11739 | June 2025 | Motion to dismiss under advisement (as of Aug. 2026) | Independent artists' recordings |
| GEMA v. Suno | Munich Regional Court I | Jan. 21, 2025 | Ruled for GEMA July 31, 2026 | Six compositions; training and outputs |
| Sony v. Uncharted Labs (Udio) | S.D.N.Y., 1:24-cv-04777 | June 24, 2024 | UMG and Warner settled; Sony active | Training on sound recordings |
| Sony v. Udio (second suit) | S.D.N.Y. | July 20, 2026 | Newly filed | 30,117 more recordings |
What is the record labels' 2024 case against Suno?
On June 24, 2024, label groups for Universal, Sony and Warner, coordinated by the RIAA, sued Suno in the District of Massachusetts and Udio's parent Uncharted Labs in the Southern District of New York. Both complaints alleged the services copied recorded music at scale to train their models. Suno has disclosed in court that its model was trained on "essentially all music files of reasonable quality" on the open internet, as the Detroit Free Press recounts, and argues that training is fair use. No U.S. court has ruled on that defense in a music case. For the doctrine, see the site's fair use analysis.
The Boston case is before Judge F. Dennis Saylor IV. Under the amended schedule, fact discovery ran to September 30, 2026 and dispositive motions are due April 9, 2027, according to Chartlex's docket-checked tracker, which means any fair use ruling is a 2027 event at the earliest.
Suno Warner settlement
Warner Music Group settled with Suno and signed a licensing deal in late November 2025. Suno agreed to retire its existing models once licensed replacements launch in 2026, and Warner artists and songwriters can opt in before their names, voices or compositions are used, as Music Business Worldwide reported. Suno also bought the concert platform Songkick from Warner. The payment was not disclosed. BMG has since signed its own licensing deal with Suno, according to the Detroit Free Press.
Universal and Sony did not settle. When the court declined to add tens of thousands of recordings to the 2024 case, they filed a second Massachusetts suit on September 18, 2026, No. 1:26-cv-14275, asserting 60,202 recordings and arguing that Suno's v6 model inherits liability from earlier models trained on their catalog. Suno called the suit "fundamentally flawed on both the facts and the law," per Digital Music News, and its chief product officer has said v6 was trained from scratch on different data without Universal or Sony recordings.
Udio settlement
Udio settled first with Universal, on October 29, 2025, agreeing to build a licensed platform for 2026, and then with Warner in November 2025, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Sony is the last major still suing Udio. After the New York court refused to expand the original case, Sony filed a second suit on July 20, 2026 asserting 30,117 more recordings, per Chartlex. Independent artists have separate class actions pending against both companies.
What is the Elvis lawsuit against Suno, and what is the ELVIS Act?
A group of Elvis Presley rights holders, including Authentic Brands Group and Raleigh Music Publishing, filed a 51-page complaint against Suno in the Northern District of California in the first week of November 2026, Variety reported. It alleges copyright infringement and that Suno lets users generate tracks that imitate Presley's voice whenever they invoke his name. The complaint opens with the line "The next Elvis won't pick up a guitar."
The novel part is the state-law claim. The complaint relies on Tennessee's Ensuring Likeness Voice and Image Security Act of 2024, the ELVIS Act, which targets unauthorized AI cloning of a person's voice and likeness. That gives the Presley side a claim that does not depend on proving a copied recording or composition: the theory is that the output trades on an identity, not a work. How a federal court in California applies a Tennessee publicity statute to a Massachusetts company is an open question the case will have to answer. The voice and likeness analysis covers how publicity rights apply to AI voices.
Suno says it blocks prompts naming specific artists and screens uploaded audio and lyrics. The same rights holders sued Anthropic in October 2026 over 274 Presley songs, and the Variety report notes the Presley claims echo an identity class action led by Jason Isbell, which Suno has moved to dismiss.
Eight Mile Style v. Suno: how much is Eminem's publisher seeking?
Eight Mile Style, the Ferndale, Michigan publisher that administers about 269 Eminem compositions, filed a 32-page complaint against Suno late on Friday, November 6, 2026 in San Francisco federal court, according to the Detroit Free Press. Eminem is not a plaintiff. The complaint names songs including "Lose Yourself," "Without Me," "The Real Slim Shady" and "Stan."
The publisher demands $150,000 for each of the 269 songs, the statutory maximum for willful infringement, which comes to about $40.4 million, plus $672,000 for copyright management information it says Suno stripped from the works. That puts the total demand above $41 million. It is a figure in a complaint, not damages awarded; statutory damages are set by a court or jury within a range, and the willfulness finding needed for the top of that range has not been made.
The complaint says Suno's name filters are easy to evade with a string of style terms instead of the rapper's name, cites a generated track called "Slim shady x Rosefalls" with AI cover art of Eminem, and points to leaked source code it says shows Suno scraped Eminem music and lyrics from YouTube and Genius. Suno responded that it "exists to help people create new, original music" and prohibits unauthorized use of an artist's work. Eight Mile Style also has a separate copyright suit against Meta over Eminem recordings, which a Michigan federal judge allowed into discovery, Variety reports.
Suno cases outside the US
The only merits ruling against Suno so far came from Germany. GEMA, the German collecting society, sued Suno in Munich on January 21, 2025. On July 31, 2026, the Munich Regional Court I ruled for GEMA on six test compositions, prohibiting Suno's use of them in training and outputs, ordering it to disclose the scale of use and holding it liable for damages in an amount still to be set, according to Chartlex's summary of the judgment. It is a first-instance decision; Suno said it disagreed and was weighing an appeal.
The same court ruled for GEMA against OpenAI over memorized song lyrics on November 11, 2025. Neither German ruling binds a U.S. court, which applies the fair use test rather than the EU text and data mining exception. Rights holders still cite them, and for AI music services selling into Europe, the EU AI Act's transparency rules add a separate layer; see the EU AI Act content rules.
What the AI music lawsuit wave means for artists
The suits split into three legal theories, and each matters to a different group. Label and publisher cases argue that copying recordings or compositions to train a model is infringement; their outcome turns on fair use and will not be known in the U.S. before 2027. Output cases point to generated tracks that reproduce lyrics or melodies, which is easier to prove song by song. Identity cases, such as the Presley suit and the Isbell class action, argue that imitating a voice or persona violates publicity law even when no work is copied.
For independent artists, the licensing deals do not pay anyone outside the labels and publishers that signed them. Their routes are the pending class actions against Suno and Udio, opt-out or opt-in controls the licensed platforms promise, and state voice laws where they apply. Other publishers have also sued Suno, including Reservoir over 1,050 songs, per Music Business Worldwide, and Round Hill Music, which Variety reported earlier in 2026.
The next fixed date is April 9, 2027, when dispositive motions are due in the Boston label case. Until then, the settlements set the market: services that license from Warner, Universal or BMG operate on negotiated terms, and Suno keeps defending against the two majors that have not signed. The case tracker carries other AI copyright suits, including Getty v. Stability AI.
Suno faces more litigation, not less: Universal and Sony are still suing in Boston, and Eminem's publisher and the Presley rights holders filed new suits in San Francisco in November 2026. Eight Mile Style seeks more than $41 million, which is a demand, not an award. The only merits ruling so far came from a Munich court for GEMA, and dispositive motions in the Boston case are due April 9, 2027.
What changed
- 2026-11-09: Page published with the Eight Mile Style and Presley suits.
- 2026-11-06: Eight Mile Style sued Suno in San Francisco seeking more than $41 million.
- 2026-09-18: Universal and Sony filed a second Massachusetts suit over Suno's v6 model, asserting 60,202 recordings.
- 2026-07-31: Munich Regional Court I ruled for GEMA against Suno.
- 2026-07-20: Sony filed a second S.D.N.Y. suit against Udio over 30,117 recordings.
- 2025-11-25: Warner Music Group settlement and licensing deal with Suno announced.
- 2025-10-29: Universal settled with Udio.
Frequently asked questions
Who is suing Suno?
Universal Music Group and Sony Music in two Massachusetts cases, Eminem's publisher Eight Mile Style and a group of Elvis Presley rights holders in California, independent artists in a proposed class action, other publishers such as Reservoir, and GEMA in Germany, which won a first-instance ruling in July 2026.
Did Suno settle with the record labels?
Only with Warner Music Group, which settled and signed a licensing deal in November 2025. Universal and Sony are still suing Suno as of November 9, 2026. On Udio's side, Universal and Warner settled in late 2025 and Sony is still suing.
What is the Elvis lawsuit against Suno?
Presley rights holders including Authentic Brands Group and Raleigh Music Publishing sued Suno in federal court in Northern California in November 2026. They allege copyright infringement and that Suno lets users clone Presley's voice, in violation of Tennessee's 2024 ELVIS Act.
Is Udio being sued?
Yes. Sony Music is still suing Udio's parent Uncharted Labs in the Southern District of New York and filed a second suit there in July 2026. Universal and Warner settled with Udio in 2025, and independent artists have separate class actions pending.
How much is Eminem's publisher seeking from Suno?
More than $41 million: $150,000 for each of 269 Eminem compositions, about $40.4 million, plus $672,000 over copyright information it says Suno removed. That is the amount demanded in the complaint, not an award.
Sources
- Detroit Free Press: Eminem song publisher seeks $41M from Suno (Nov. 7, 2026)
- Variety: Elvis music owners, Eminem publisher file lawsuits against Suno
- Complaint, UMG and Sony v. Suno, No. 1:26-cv-14275 (D. Mass.)
- Music Business Worldwide: Warner Music Group settles with Suno
- Hollywood Reporter: Warner Music Group settles lawsuit with Udio
- Digital Music News: Suno responds to UMG and Sony's second suit (Sept. 22, 2026)
- Chartlex: Music industry AI lawsuits tracker (updated Aug. 20, 2026)
- Music Business Worldwide: Reservoir sues Suno over 1,050 songs
This page is journalism and commentary, not legal advice. AI law changes quickly; check the primary sources above and consult qualified counsel for your situation.