An ongoing legal battle between grunge icons Nirvana and fashion designer Marc Jacobs revolves around a blissed-out smiley face known to rock fans around the world — recognizable for its crooked grin, ...

The grunge band is locked in a three-way intellectual property war with a fashion designer and a former record label employee over the lucrative image. By Bill Donahue A years-long legal fight over ...

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 ...

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 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 LLC sued high ...

Nirvana, through the firm that manages the band's copyrights, has struck back at a designer who maintains he created the band's distinct smiley face logo. On Monday (Jan. 24), Nirvana LLC, the ...

Six years after Nirvana filed a lawsuit against Marc Jacobs for the use of a smiley face logo, a settlement has been reached. In California federal court Tuesday, the remaining members of the band ...

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 famous ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A former Geffen Records art director claims that he, not Kurt Cobain, created Nirvana's smiley-face logo, which has been at the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A years-long legal fight over Nirvana‘s iconic smiley face logo could be headed for a major showdown, sparked by a former record ...