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 symbol. Nirvana first brought the suit in Dec ...

Nirvana sued designer Marc Jacobs in December of 2018 over a shirt ... “The registration is composed of familiar symbols or designs and/or words and short phrases such as names, titles, and ...

But the other big part of Marc Jacobs’ argument is that Kurt Cobain, the late lead singer of Nirvana, did not design the logo as the copyright ... it is a ubiquitous symbol that consumers ...