

"Most child pornography is traded well into the victim's adulthood," attorney Margaret Mabie said via email. Elden says Nirvana and its record label have profited from child pornography by selling the album that famously features him on the cover. Spencer Elden is appealing the dismissal, his lawyers told NPR, arguing that the judge in the case has misinterpreted the federal child sexual exploitation law known as Masha's law. But a lawsuit from a man who appeared as a naked baby on the band's landmark Nevermind album still isn't paying off: a federal judge has once again dismissed the lawsuit. Teenage angst pays off well, as Nirvana's Kurt Cobain sang.

Nirvana band members Krist Novoselic (from left) Dave Grohl and Kurt Cobain pose after receiving the award for best alternative video for "In Bloom" at the MTV Video Music Awards on Sept.
