Eminem's Publisher Eight Mile Style Sues Suno Over 269 Songs

By Miles Carter, November 10, 2026

Eight Mile Style and Martin Affiliated, the Ferndale, Michigan companies behind a catalog of 269 Eminem compositions, sued AI music company Suno in federal court in San Francisco on Nov 6, 2026, court records show. The case is Eight Mile Style LLC et al v. Suno, Inc., No. 3:26-cv-13399, in the Northern District of California.

The complaint alleges Suno trained its song generator on those works without authorization, CBS Detroit reported. It accuses the company of direct copyright infringement, circumventing protection measures, and removing or altering copyright management information. Suno has not been found liable, and the allegations have not been tested in court.

The catalog at stake

The songs named in the filing include "Lose Yourself," "Without Me," "'Till I Collapse," "The Real Slim Shady" and "Stan," the Detroit Free Press reported. According to CBS Detroit, the complaint gives an example in which Suno produced a track titled "Lose Yourself by Eminem" for a user that copies the song's lyrics word for word.

The math behind the claim

The complaint does its own math. At up to $150,000 per work willfully infringed, it puts statutory copyright damages for the 269 works at $40,350,000. It separately seeks $672,500 on the anti-circumvention count, at up to $2,500 per violation, and $6,725,000 on the copyright management information count, at up to $25,000 per violation.

Not the only case

Suno already faces a 2024 lawsuit brought through the Recording Industry Association of America on behalf of major labels, per the Free Press. Two of those labels, BMG and Warner Music Group, have since struck licensing deals with Suno, while Universal Music Group, Eminem's record company, remains a plaintiff.

Eminem himself is not named as a plaintiff in the Eight Mile Style filing.