I agree with the man suing.
No one should make money over selling naked baby pictures. Except perhaps for valid medical purposes.
I’ll probably be a minority in FR but nope.
Nirvana was not an Establisment Band. Grohl has gone from "challenge authority" to "suck up to authority."
Rick Schroeder is right - Kurt is turning over in his grave.
The Coppertone tot would have a case too under this logic.
This is where rational people say “This is retarded.” and tell the lawyers and the entire legal profession to pack sand.
Normal people do not get aroused by pictures like this. We have a decision, we either all live under penalties designed to punish sick pedophiles or maybe we just loosen the government overreach on everyone normal and start executing pedophiles every time we catch them.
“Elden claims that the image has caused him to “suffer lifelong damages.””
I believe Elden and support him. I remember when the Nirvana album was released and saw the cover. It was a shock: gross, stupid and repulsive. I was insulted by the stupid band and their stupid managers. Cobain was brilliant but unethical, depressed and grungy. I also remember at guitarist for a top punk band scolding me for not liking Nirvana at the time. Oh well. Play with fire, get burned. Nirvana is ancient history now like Foreigner, Toto, and Three Day Stubble.
It’s about time. I always found these things disturbing. There were sometimes software ads in computer magazines with naked babies and it made no sense at all.
I would have thought that submerging a baby without support like they did would create more liability than the lack of a diaper or swim suit.
Ironically, the album that knocked Michael Jackson off the top of the charts.
It’s art. You need to look at Renaissance art in Italy. And quit being a prude. Americans are so uptight when it comes to stuff like this.
Whatta stupid ruckus over a naked baby.
As if everybody hasn’t seen any of those, ever.
Now there’s fold-down changing tables in restrooms all over the place; a body could walk in on a naked baby nearly any day of the week.
Ohhh, but THIS one — THIS naked baby, whhyyyy THIS naked baby’s DIFFERENT, ya see. DIFFERENT, I tell ya!
Ya wanna know HOW?
YEAH? Well, I’LL TELL tell ya how. THIS naked baby’s different, because his little naked baby picture — which nobody particularly gave a rat’s ass bout, until this week —
that pic is attached to the estate of a millionaire, and to the financial holdings of that now-departed millionaire’s former band mates.
I DEFY ANYBODY to tell me this is about any more, nor any less than ALL the Benjamins.
If Nirvana had tanked, and gone nowhere musically, this case would NEVER be brought. But there’s MONEY to be had, and sleazy lawyers willing to go the extra mile to help knock it loose; “We win, or we don’t get paid! Call us toll free right NOW: 1-800-EAT-RICH! What ARE you waiting for??”
C’MON, BABY, EAT THE RICH!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wh3t49NsWBA
That does it... I am suing my mom for all the naked baby pictures she took of me. But I am going to have to hurry since she has had severe complications to the Pfizer vaccine and still might not make it. I suspect she is just hamming it up to try and escape my lawsuit. /s
I remember thinking it was weird when it first came out.
You do have to wonder why these album covers existed in the first place. I think I wanted to believe the genitals on Nevermind were just incidental. But I was always seriously creeped out by the Blind Faith album, featuring a barely pubescent girl posing nude. I’ve never seen the uncensored Virgin Killer album cover, but if it’s the apparently censored one but nude, I have to ask, WTF??? It’s disturbing enough censored.
Fixed it for ya. Kid hasn't done much in his life except dip into the pool every now and again (sorry for the pun) for a quick paycheck because his folks let him be a photography model as a baby. This is just the latest attempt.
Child porn doesn't get a lot of pushback, mostly on account of the fact that kid diddling is universally considered bad, but nobody except the mentally ill looks at a naked baby and says "oh yeah, shake it baby." in a lurid way. If that was a thing, police would be raiding newborn photo studio sessions constantly. For some reason they don't. Still, it's better than even odds that he gets a few grand from raising this stink because lawyers like to bill time to make things go away quickly and quietly. The trouble with this particular guy is that he doesn't have any other particularly notable skills and once he calls his cash cow a bunch of pedos, the spigot kind of gets turned off. This was his last chance.
So, how that he's no longer able to make money exploiting his bizarre celebrity over that album cover, he has discovered another more effective way to make money.
Couldn’t just revel in it and get laid?
A very good album though. I remember thinking maybe rock music would have turned the corner form the lame 80s. (Lame 80s applies to the music scene only)
A naked baby is not necessarily pornographic.
If you’ve seen the unedited cover of Scorpion’s Virgin Killer; then yeah. You’ve seen porn.