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" Mr Elden originally filed a lawsuit in 2021, arguing that his identity and name were "forever tied to the commercial sexual exploitation he experienced as a minor which has been distributed and sold worldwide"