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In a lawsuit filed Tuesday, Spencer Elden, now 30, alleges the band violated federal child pornography laws and claims that his parents never signed a release allowing Nirvana to use the photo, CBS Los Angeles reports. The man who, as a baby, was featured on the cover of Nirvana’s “Nevermind” album is suing the former band members, the estate of Kurt Cobain and several others over the famous naked photograph. ▶ Watch Video: Nirvana faces lawsuit from man whose baby photo appeared on album cover

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“Why am I still on their cover if I’m not that big of a deal?” he said. Elden said he was referred to managers and lawyers. He said that his feelings about the cover began to change “just a few months ago, when I was reaching out to Nirvana to see if they wanted to be part of my art show.” “Recently I’ve been thinking, ‘What if I wasn’t OK with my freaking penis being shown to everybody?’ I didn’t really have a choice,” Mr. In a different interview that year, he said he was angry that people still talked about it. “It’d be nice to have a quarter for every person that has seen my baby penis,” he said in a New York Post interview in 2016. Over the years, he has expressed ambivalence about the cover.

For example, he worked with Shepard Fairey, the artist who was sued by The Associated Press for using an image of Barack Obama for his piece “Hope.” Elden, who declined to comment on his suit, said in a short documentary in 2015 that the album cover had “opened doors” for him. She said her client sometimes agreed when the band, media outlets and fans asked him to recreate the photo as an adult, but he eventually realized that this only resulted in the “image of him as a baby being further exploited.” “The point was not just to create a menacing image but to cross the line and they did so in a way that exposed Spencer so that they could profit off of it.” “They were trying to create controversy because controversy sells,” Ms. Elden’s parents $200 for the picture, which was later altered to show the baby chasing a dollar, dangling from a fishhook. Cobain envisioned showing a baby underwater. Weddle photographed for the album cover, which Mr. Elden was picked from among dozens of pictures of babies Mr. Weddle did not respond to messages requesting comment.

Elden is seeking $150,000 from each of the 15 people and companies named in the complaint, including Kirk Weddle, the photographer who took the picture. Elden, an artist living in Los Angeles County, has gone to therapy for years to work through how the album cover affected him, said Maggie Mabie, one of his lawyers. Elden suffered “permanent harm” because of his association with the album, including emotional distress and a “lifelong loss of income-earning capacity.” The lawsuit did not provide details about the losses and said they would be disclosed at trial. “Defendants knowingly produced, possessed, and advertised commercial child pornography depicting Spencer, and they knowingly received value in exchange for doing so,” according to the lawsuit, which was filed on Tuesday in federal court in California. It is one of the best-selling records of all time, with at least 30 million copies sold worldwide. He claimed that they, along with Geffen Records, which released “Nevermind,” profited from his naked image. Cobain’s widow, Courtney Love, among other parties. Elden, 30, has filed a federal lawsuit against the estate of Kurt Cobain, the musician’s former bandmates, David Grohl and Krist Novoselic, and Mr.