One of the biggest controversies in rock music this year is the lawsuit against Nirvana by Spencer Elden, who is depicted as a baby on the cover of the band’s 1991 album. I don’t care. However, this isn’t the first time the band has found itself in this kind of situation.
In fact, throughout the history of music, there have been numerous lawsuits against bands over album artwork, but to keep things relevant to the Nirvana and Elden cases, let’s focus on those brought against bands by people. I guess. Models who actually decorate the cover.
Perhaps one of the most famous examples is the Rolling Stones’ 1978 album. some girl, Marking a shift towards disco and funk rock, it originally featured very famous faces on the cover in addition to the band members. I decided to put out another version of the cover using only the face of
“The original album had old-school movie stars, but we were stupid and didn’t get permission from them, so we stopped using them many times,” says Mick Jagger. later told Yahoo! of artwork.
This is a situation where the band has not actually asked for permission to use the image, and this is the same for several others on our list. is unique in that it agreed to use the photo of whatever, He was a baby during the photo shoot.
But he’s celebrated album covers in recent years, so when news broke that the photos claimed to be child pornography, many raised eyebrows. as he did I don’t care tattoo.
Scroll through the gallery below to learn more about other similar cases.
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