Nirvana Escapes Porn Charges in Suit Filed by ‘Nevermind’ Baby

A California judge determined that Nirvana’s 1991 “Nevermind” album cover featuring a naked baby in a pool reaching for a dollar bill is not child pornography.

That conclusion, from a Tuesday ruling granting a summary judgment motion filed by the band’s surviving members, the estate of late front man Kurt Cobain, and several record labels, ends a four-year-old case brought by Spencer Elden, who was four months old when he was photographed for the grunge band’s second studio album.

The “ideas behind the album cover suggests that it was intended and understood to embody a critique of the tension between ...