In the suit, Elden alleges he has suffered and continues to suffer ‘lifelong damages’ as a result of the album cover, and says his legal guardians never signed a release “authorizing the use of any images of Spencer or of his likeness, and certainly not of commercial child pornography depicting him.”Įlden previously recreated the ‘Nevermind’ album cover when he was 17 in 2008, and again aged 25 in 2016. The lawsuit names various defendants including Weddle, various record companies, Dave Grohl, Krist Novoselic, and Courtney Love as executor of the Kurt Cobain’s estate.

Original Nirvana drummer Chad Channing, who left the band in 1990 a year before the release of ‘Nevermind’, has been dropped as a defendant in the case. “In several instances,” the suit reads, “the journals describe Cobain’s twisted vision for the Never mind (sic) album cover, along with his emotional struggles.”

Nirvana's Dave Grohl, Kurt Cobain and Krist Novoselic in 1991Īnother amendment quotes Kurt Cobain’s personal journals, which were published by Riverhead Books in 2002 eight years after the rock legend’s death.

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