Spencer Elden, whose photograph as a baby was later used on the cover of Nirvana's Nevermind, has tried to sue the band for distributing child pornography.
Or for a shedload of money, perhaps. You decide.
Fortunately, the legal system in the US has got it right, with Judge Olguin basically ruling that this is ridiculous. Of course, Spencer and his lawyers plan to appeal... monkey see, monkey do, as Kurt once sang.
Footnote: I couldn't embed this video from Nirvana's official YouTube channel, because it's age restricted.
I find it very hard not to react to any Spencer reference, however unrelated, without a knee jerk riposte of “Ooh, Betty!”
ReplyDeleteShowing my age, clearly.
Funnily enough, I almost wrote a similar reference into the post.
DeleteI thought you were telling the Spencer who recently provided a guest post for Swiss Adam that you had no uses for his services in an uncharacteristically brusque manner.
DeleteMoi?
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