News Summary

• Four-month-old Spencer Elden was pictured swimming naked underwater on the 1991 LP's famous cover.
• He sued the rock band and photographer Kirk Weddle, but a judge has ruled that "neither the pose, focal point, setting, nor overall context suggest the album cover features sexually explicit conduct" A lawyer for Nirvana said: "We are delighted the court has ended this meritless case and freed our creative clients of the stigma of false allegations" The judge likened the image to a family photo of a child bathing, and said it is "plainly insufficient to support a finding" of child pornography.