Fashion companies aren't usually keen on people counterfeiting their goods or misusing their logo, even if it's for satirical purposes. But some have a curiously relaxed approach when it comes to ...

In case you didn’t know, Nirvana have been involved in a two-year copyright lawsuit over their smiley face logo. Now, a California graphic artist claims he created the iconic logo, not Kurt Cobain.

A complicated years-long three-way lawsuit involving Nirvana‘s famous smiley face logo has now been quietly settled out of court. The band sued Marc Jacobs in 2018, claiming the fashion designer ...

A firm managing Nirvana's copyrights has refuted a graphic artist's ownership claim over the grunge band’s famous smiley face logo. The complicated legal drama began in 2018 when Nirvana ...

At the center of the lawsuit are copyright and trademark infringement allegations regarding the use of Nirvana’s smiley face logo on a line of designer clothing made by Marc Jacobs. Nirvana ...

On Jan. 24, Fisher, who worked as an art director at Nirvana’s label DGC/Geffen Records during the time the band was beginning to ascend, claimed that he created the distinct smiley face logo ...

UPDATE: After this article was published, Marc Jacobs filed a countersuit Nirvana that seeks to invalidate the band’s copyright registration of the X-Eye Smiley Face logo. Among homo sapiens ...

While some bands and companies boast an elaborate logo and flashy advertising, for the ’90s grunge band out of Seattle—Nirvana—it was a modest squiggly-mouthed smiley face with Xs for eyes ...

After several years, and a few unexpected twists, Nirvana and Marc Jacobs have settled a copyright dispute over the band’s smiley face logo, which also raised questions about the origins of the ...

Also included in the motion is a side-by-side chart comparing the components of the Nirvana logo to the imagery used by Marc Jacobs, as well as positive comments made by Love and her daughter with ...

July 9 (Reuters) - LVMH-owned (LVMH.PA), opens new tab fashion label Marc Jacobs, artist Robert Fisher and the surviving members of rock band Nirvana are settling a lawsuit over the rights to the ...

With its zonked-out face, the Nirvana logo is one of the best band logos of all time, famously appearing on T-shirts with the phrase "Flower sniffin', kitty pettin', baby kissin', Corporate rock ...