The man who, as a baby, was featured on the cover of Nirvana’s “Nevermind” album is suing the former band members, the estate of Kurt Cobain and several others over the famous naked photograph. In a lawsuit filed Tuesday, Spencer Elden, now 30, alleges the band violated federal child pornography laws and claims that his parents never signed a release allowing Nirvana to use the photo, CBS Los Angeles reports.
In a complaint filed in the Los Angeles federal court, Elden alleges his “identity and legal name are forever tied to the commercial sexual exploitation he experienced as a minor, which has been distributed and sold worldwide from the time he was a baby to the present day.”
Baby on Nirvana’s “Nevermind” album cover sues band for child porn – CBS News
I actually hope he wins and scares Hollywood and the Entertainment business into paralysis. I can imagine a future with zero real children in movies and TV and only cartoons or computer-generated wee ones. Nobody under 18 will be allowed screen time so the companies don’t get sued in the future.
But mostly it will kill them cheesy movies were the grumpy adults soften up to the charms of a small sweet kid and give us some puree of emotional bullcrap with zero mental protein content and just loaded with stupid emotional carbs.
Hat Tip Mark C
Dude was fine with it for 30 years until a lawyer called him and waved another dollar bill in front of this face.
In fact he was trading in on it once he turned 18, but I guess that wore thin
TRUST ME!!
I am not an expert on child porn, but do believe that the album cover does not qualify as child porn.
There’s an “intent” factor
Yeah, he redid the shoot twice voluntarily so it didn’t scar him for life. Judge should throw out quickly.
Only Fans is walking back their plans to stop Porn and Sexual Exploitation:
https://twitter.com/i/events/1430522273266499598
They realized that Sex is aboiut the only thing their clients sell.
The ‘victim’ at the center has recreated the pose at least three times in the last thirty years for his own gain.
Further he’s a thirty year old artist. So, he’s soon to be homeless when his girlfriend leaves him.
The idea that he’s recognizable from that photo is laughable — or he’s a genetic anomaly, and has much bigger worries on his hands.