Nirvana Nevermind cover baby suing for exploitation

Pure nonsense lawsuit.

1) Parents responsibility for allowing the photo, he should sue them instead.

2) Nobody would even know it is him if he didn't keep "recreating" the photo.

3) "Spencer Elden, now 30, is suing the band's surviving members as well as Kurt Cobain's estate, claiming that he could not consent to being pictured on the 1991 album cover" - A 4 month old can't consent to anything, new wave woke nonsense retroactively being applied to historical events. Much like asking a 4 month old for permission to change their nappy like was suggested by an Australian group recently. See point 1 above, until you are 18 your consent is given by your parents. Sue them instead.

Haha. It really is just a game these days. Everyones having a shot. Sure why not.

Im pretty sure a teacher fecked some chalk at me in 2nd class.

Gib monies.

All this greed with people - it would drain you.

The requests for him to recreate the album cover must have dried up. If this succeeds, it'll open the floodgates. Every adult who appeared in films, TV shows, advertisements etc as a baby will be suing.

Hoping for a handy pay-day. Or else trying to make a minor celebrity of himself.

Either way, move along.

Man who has courted publicity for all his adult life sues because said publicity is allegedly ruining his life.

The album is about to mark its 30th anniversary so the timing is certainly suspect.

Mind you, it's no skin off Kurt's nose, and considering he exited this world pretty much hating everything about what Nirvana had become he might actually find all of this hilarious.

It would put you off trying to breed

I don't necessarily agree with the lawsuit but I can see why it would be easy to sue over something like this. A picture of a naked baby on an album cover could be considered an indecent image. It wouldn't take much for a lawyer to make a case out of it I think.

Seems like the photographer of the image has said that he thinks Spencer Elden should get something, so I reckon he probably has a chance of making something from it.

My main issue on it is the topic of consent. The parents were the legal guardians at the time and if they gave consent for them to use it, then it's really on them, but of course, Spencer was too young to understand so you could argue he has a case. He didn't make any money off of it either so in a way, was kind've exploited. I'd say the surviving band members will settle it and give him what he asks for since they're rich and can probably take the hit. Hell, they'll probably sympathize with him.

A cash grab, I know, but it's the world we live in now.

**** off.

I’d say the lads in the advertising dept of Pampers are sh1tting themselves

He was fine with it a few years ago....

Spencer Elden, 25, wanted to go au naturel when he made a splash to honor the legendary grunge band, he told The Post.

“I said to the photographer, ‘Let’s do it naked.’ But he thought that would be weird, so I wore my swim shorts,” said Elden, an artist from LA.

The album, released 25 years ago Saturday, includes songs like “Smells Like Teen Spirit” and “Come as You Are” and has sold more than 30 million copies worldwide.

“The anniversary means something to me. It’s strange that I did this for five minutes when I was 4 months old and it became this really iconic image,” he said.

“It’s cool but weird to be part of something so important that I don’t even remember,” said Elden, who prefers the punk band The Clash over Nirvana.

Earlier this month, photographer John Chapple paid him $200 to do it again, he told The Post.

Elden hopped in a lap pool at The Rose Bowl Aquatics Center in Pasadena to recreate the album cover image.

Elden did the same thing 10 years ago, in honor of the album’s 15th anniversary.

https://nypost.com/2016/09/23/nirvana-baby-recreates-iconic-album-cover-25-years-later/

If anyone exploited him it was his parents / guardians... who I imagine enabled the shoot and whatever compensation / royalties....

Give him that dollar bill that he was trying to catch🙄