Nirvana have prevailed (again) in the legal battle over the cover of Nevermind , with a judge dismissing a lawsuit brought by Spencer Elden , who claimed the naked photo of him as a baby violated child pornography laws.

In a ruling issued earlier this week, Judge Fernando M. Olguin said that the iconic photo of Elden swimming after a dollar bill on a fishing hook did not fall within the scope of what is legally defined as child pornography. He instead compared it to “a family photo of a nude child bathing,” adding that the image was “plainly insufficient to support a finding of lasciviousness.”

Elden, who was four-months-old at the time he appeared on the Nevermind cover, filed his lawsuit in 2021, when he was 30. The suit was actually dismissed in 2022 after Olguin ruled

See Full Page