Nirvana and Marc Jacobs Settle Copyright Lawsuit Over Smiley Face

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Nirvana and Marc Jacobs Settle Copyright Lawsuit Over Smiley Face
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The band first took legal action against the designer's company in 2018 over the use of a smiley face.

Gigi Hadid helped celebrate the Marc Jacobs Redux Grunge Collection launch and the opening of Marc Jacobs' Madison Avenue store in December 2018.Attorneys for Nirvana, Fisher and Jacobs did not respond to media requests Thursday, nor did representatives at Jacobs’ company.

Nirvana’s legal team argued that it had used the logo on licensed apparel including T-shirts, bags and hoodies. The band took issue with a Marc Jacobs T-shirt with a smiley face that had an “M” and a “J” for the eyes instead of two “Xs.” Nirvana’s legal team claimed that the design was “virtually identical or substantially similar” to the original logo.Marc Jacobs International, Saks Fifth Avenue and Neiman Marcus filed a counterclaim in December 2018.

By his own account. Fisher once explained that he had been hired as a designer out of art school and he worked his way up to art director. The artist reportedly said he was excited when he heard that Geffen was going to sign Nirvana, so he went and asked if he could work on it. The suit had been filed after Marc Jacobs issued the “Bootleg Redux Grunge” collection in November 2018, which was considered to be something of a reprise of the designer’s 1993 grunge collection. The redux collection included sweatshirts, T-shirts and socks that featured a similar smiley face design, with the initials “M” and “J” standing in for the eyes, rather than the Xs.

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