Elvis Presley rights holders sue AI music company Suno

The case was filed in a federal court in Northern California, according to a court index. Presley’s rights holders say Suno lets users create songs that sound as if the singer performed them, Nieuws.nl reported, citing Billboard.

They also accuse Suno of using Presley recordings without permission to train its AI models and profiting from the unauthorised use of his voice and music. Nieuws.nl reported that the lawsuit relies in part on a US law protecting artists against unauthorised AI imitation of their voices.

Suno has previously denied that its technology can imitate specific artists, according to Nieuws.nl. In a separate court filing on 20 October, the company said users had been able to enter artists’ names in prompts since January, but that the names were converted into descriptions of musical style before music was generated. That filing was not a response to the Presley case.

Presley’s rights holders also sued AI company Anthropic in late October, alleging that it used hundreds of his songs without permission to train its models.