By Annie Aguiar Oh, that lawsuit Nirvana filed against the fashion line Marc Jacobs for using its smiley face logo without permission? Nevermind. After more than a half-decade of litigation ...

The rock band is suing the designer for his use of a smiley face symbol, which Nirvana's attorneys claim is "virtually identical" to their logo, in the Marc Jacobs Redux Grunge collection.

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 ...

In the suit, attorneys for Nirvana alleged that Marc Jacobs used the band’s imagery, particularly its “Happy Face” logo, without authorization for the brand’s “Redux Grunge Collection.” ...

But the other big part of Marc Jacobs’ argument is that Kurt Cobain, the late lead singer of Nirvana, did not design the logo as the copyright for the logo purportedly claims. “The creator of ...