A years-long legal fight over Nirvana‘s iconic smiley face logo could be headed for a major showdown, sparked by a former record label art designer who says he, not Kurt Cobain, created the famed ...

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 that has ...

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 ...

MILWAUKEE (CBS 58) -- The man behind Milwaukee's most famous smile has died. Noel Spangler was the co-creator of Summerfest's smiley face logo, a simple design that has symbolized the festival for ...

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.

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 general partnership which controls the Nirvana copyrights sued a Los Angeles art director Wednesday, alleging the designer falsely claims to own an interest in a smiley face logo the grunge-rock ...

A new twist has entered the more than three-year copyright and trademark battle with designer Marc Jacobs over the use of Nirvana’s smiley face logo. Graphic artist Robert Fisher, who worked with the ...

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 ...

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 ...