Elvis Presley's estate files US copyright claims against Suno

( November 6, 2026, 23:31 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: Elvis Presley's estate filed a US complaint against Suno for using the artists' works to train its artificial intelligence models so that its users can create sound recordings based upon prompts. "Entering a musician's name into Suno's 'Create' function, such as Elvis', causes Suno to generate unauthorized output based on his [name, image and likeness], which copies and reproduces the signature and recognizable aspects of his distinguished voice. What's worse, upon information and belief, with a Suno Pro account users can save a 'voice' and re-use it to make new output, and this has occurred and resulted in further proliferation and derivation of Elvis' protected NIL without authorization," they claimed. See attached file....

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