Lawsuit dismissed for cover with baby’s photo on Nirvana’s Nevermind album

Lawsuit dismissed for cover with baby’s photo on Nirvana’s Nevermind album

However, the magistrate set a new deadline for January 13, the date on which the case will fall definitively if the plaintiff does not make the pertinent presentations.

The young model had considered that the famous image of him as a baby trying to reach a bill under water, which was intended to symbolize the way in which the capitalist system corrupts all human beings, actually accounted for a “sex worker”, for his nudity and his reaction to money.

Among the defendants appeared Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic, but also Courtney Love, widow of Kurt Cobain; the photographer Kirk Weddle; record companies and even Chad Channing, original drummer of the band that had left the group long before the publication of that album.

However, the fact that Elden has been publicly presented for many years as “Nirvana Baby” and that he has agreed to recreate the cover on several occasions was the main argument used by the defense to reject the charges.

Nirvana Spencer Elden

The young man recreated the image in 2016 on the 25th anniversary of Nevermind

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The young man had been photographed by a photographer friend of his parents, who offered $ 200 to pay for the shot; And, according to his version, he never clarified that the image was going to be used for an album cover.

“Nevermind” It is Nirvana’s most successful album and served as a trigger for the explosion of grunge music.

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