Elvis Presley Enterprises v. Suno, Filed 6 November 2026: How Tennessee's ELVIS Act Tests Liability for AI Voice Cloning by a Music Generator

What Elvis Presley Enterprises filed against Suno on 6 November 2026

Elvis Presley Enterprises, the Authentic Brands Group unit that controls Presley's name, image, likeness and much of his catalog, sued the AI music company Suno on Friday, 6 November 2026, according to Billboard. The complaint, filed by Richard Busch of Adams and Reese, accuses Suno of training on Presley recordings such as "Can't Help Falling in Love" and "Don't Be Cruel," and of letting users generate songs in Presley's voice. It links videos of Suno outputs and alleges that entering his name produced an Elvis clone as recently as October. Suno says it blocks prompts naming specific artists and screens uploads. The same lawyers filed a parallel copyright suit for Eight Mile Style, publisher of much of Eminem's catalog.

Which part of Tennessee's ELVIS Act the case will test

The ELVIS Act, Public Chapter 588, in force since 1 July 2024, made a voice a property right "in any medium in any manner," including a simulation. It reaches anyone who makes an unauthorized voice available to the public, and providers of a tool whose "primary purpose or function" is producing a particular, identifiable individual's voice. A general music generator sits at the edge of that second clause, so the suit is an early test of AI voice cloning liability for a platform as well as for the people who use it.