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Swede

(37,768 posts) Sat Oct 4, 2025, 12:30 PM Oct 4

Nirvana again defeats child pornography lawsuit over 'Nevermind' cover

A federal judge again threw out a lawsuit by a man who accused iconic grunge rock band Nirvana of distributing child pornography by using a photograph of him as a naked, swimming baby on the cover of its breakthrough 1991 album "Nevermind."
U.S. District Judge Fernando Olguin tossed out the lawsuit, opens new tab filed by plaintiff Spencer Elden for a second time after finding that no reasonable jury would consider the picture pornographic.

https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/nirvana-again-defeats-child-pornography-lawsuit-over-nevermind-cover-2025-10-01/

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Nirvana again defeats child pornography lawsuit over 'Nevermind' cover (Original Post) Swede Oct 4 OP

According to the article, Elden FoxNewsSucks Oct 4 #1

Continuing Harm For 34 Years? ProfessorGAC Oct 4 #4

It's Art. Full stop. no_hypocrisy Oct 4 #2

Fiden should sue his parents who signed the model release and had the controlling interest at the time. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Oct 4 #3

FoxNewsSucks

(11,387 posts)

1. According to the article, Elden

Reply to Swede (Original post)

Sat Oct 4, 2025, 12:46 PM

Oct 4

says it is "causing him continuing personal harm". WTH? Who would even have know it was him?

I always liked that cover for the symbolism of money being bait for the human species.