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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

The decades-old Nirvana smiley face logo is still causing strife between the band’s company and Marc Jacobs. As Nirvana LLC’s copyright suit plays out in California federal court over the designer’s ...

The rock band Nirvana sued the fashion line after it announced a “Bootleg Redux Grunge” collection in 2018. By Annie Aguiar Oh, that lawsuit Nirvana filed against the fashion line Marc Jacobs for ...

The deal will end a three-way intellectual property war with a fashion designer and a former record label employee over the lucrative image. By Bill Donahue A legal battle over Nirvana‘s iconic smiley ...

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 ...