NEW YORK, August 25,2021, (nypost.com)
A lawsuit filed by the man who appeared as a baby on Nirvana’s ‘Nevermind’ album cover is getting a varied reaction from many legal experts.
Jeff Herman quoted in the New York Post article:
But lawyer Jeff Herman, whose Manhattan firm recently filed around 1,400 suits under New York’s Child Victims’ Act, said, “In terms of what is being alleged, I think it’s a well-pled complaint and I think it will be a question of fact for the jury as to whether or not the album cover fits the definition of pornography.”
“The fact that there was a choice to put a naked baby exposing its genitals, to me, suggests that there was this prurient reason to do that, to be shocking,” he said.
Herman also said he understood how Elden feels “harmed” by having appeared in his birthday suit on the cover of the iconic 1991 “grunge” album, which reportedly sold more than 30 million copies.
“One of the difficult things about child porn is that once it’s out there it’s out there,” he said.
“In this case … it’s out there like there was nothing inappropriate about it,” he said.
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