I still don't know how they got away with that album art. But that's Hollywood for ya, full of disgusting degeneracy.
Hope he takes em to the cleaners.
What? Get a life.
As for this guy suing them, sounds to me he might not be making as much money from exploiting the situation himself so is looking for one final payout. I mean he sort of recreated the cover as the article shows and even has Nevermind tattooed across his chest...He is suing 15 people in all for $150K each so dude wants $2.25M total. Non-sexualised photos of infants are generally not considered child pornography under US law.
The article also shows so much disrespect to Krist Novoselic by not naming him as a band member by stating "According to the docs, Elden claims Kurt, Dave Grohl and the rest of the band failed to protect and prevent him from being sexually exploited".
From a BBC article ..sounds like this has had more positives than negatives for him and if anything they should be suing their family friend Weddle as he took the pictures and likely sold it to Geffen or Nirvana as being his art from a project that he owned the rights to.
"It's always been a positive thing and opened doors for me," he told the Guardian six years ago. "I'm 23 now and an artist, and this story gave me an opportunity to work with Shepard Fairey for five years, which was an awesome experience. He is a huge music connoisseur: when he heard I was the Nirvana baby, he thought that was really cool."
In 2008, Spencer's father Rick recounted the photo shoot to US radio network NPR, saying he had been offered $200 to take part by Weddle, who was a family friend.
"We just had a big party at the pool, and no one had any idea what was going on!"
The family quickly forgot the photoshoot until, three months later, they saw the Nevermind album cover blown up on the wall of Tower Records in Los Angeles.
Two months after that, NPR's article said, "Geffen Records sent 1-year-old Spencer Elden a platinum album and a teddy bear".