Nirvana is celebrating a court victory.
Judge Fernando M. Olguin has dismissed a lawsuit filed by Spencer Elden , the man who appeared as a naked baby on the iconic cover of the band’s 1991 album Nevermind .
In the lawsuit, Spencer claimed that the photo violated federal child p-rnography laws, which the judge disagreed with, per Billboard .
“Neither the pose, focal point, setting, nor overall context suggest the album cover features sexually explicit conduct,” the judge wrote.
“This image – an image that is most analogous to a family photo of a nude child bathing – is plainly insufficient to support a finding of [child p-rnography].”
“Nudity must be coupled with other circumstances that make the visual depiction lascivious or sexually provocative,” he added, and also po