Fashion label Marc Jacobs, artist Robert Fisher and Nirvana’s company are close to settling a Los Angeles lawsuit over use of a smiley face logo the grunge-rock band placed on its T-shirts ...

Nirvana's smiley face logo legal battle drags on in a three-way intellectual property war with Marc Jacobs and a former Geffen employee over the image × Skip to main content ...

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 ...

A former Geffen Records art director claims that he, not Kurt Cobain, created Nirvana’s smiley-face logo, which has been at the center of a legal dispute between the band and designer Marc Jacobs.

Nirvana’s logo – a yellow smiley face with X’d-out eyes — first appeared during promotion for 1991’s Nevermind.The design eventually became something of an unofficial emblem for the band ...

The Nirvana smiley face logo, allegedly designed by the late Kurt Cobain, has been the subject of a 6-year-long lawsuit between the band’s remaining members, designer Marc Jacobs, and Nirvana ...

In 2018, Nirvana sued Marc Jacobs International after the company debuted a “Redux Grunge” collection, which included a shirt resembling Nirvana’s smiley face logo. Where the Nirvana smiley ...

Nirvana, grunge-rock pioneers and one of the best-selling bands of all time, sued Marc Jacobs in 2018 over the logo, a crudely drawn face with crossed-out eyes and a tongue-out smile.