<p>The US man who featured as a baby on the cover of Nirvana's "Nevermind" album, one of the most famous album covers of all time, is suing the band for sexual exploitation, according to a lawsuit.</p>.<p>Spencer Elden was photographed in 1991, when he was four months old, naked in a swimming pool reaching for a dollar bill on a fish hook. The album went on to sell 30 million copies, with songs such as "Smells Like Teen Spirit" becoming American pop cultural touchstones.</p>.<p>But neither Elden nor his legal guardians "ever signed a release authorizing the use of any images of Spencer or of his likeness, and certainly not of commercial child pornography depicting him," the lawsuit said.</p>.<p>It also said Elden had never received any compensation for the image, and asked for $150,000 in damages from each of the 15 defendants -- including the surviving former members of the band, Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic, as well as the estate of the late lead singer Kurt Cobain, and the photographer, Kirk Weddle.</p>.<p>The album cover "exposed Spencer's intimate body part and lasciviously displayed Spencer's genitals from the time he was an infant to the present day," the lawsuit, filed in California, said.</p>.<p>It said Elden had suffered "extreme and permanent emotional distress," as well as "lifelong loss of income earning capacity," among other consequences.</p>.<p>Representatives for Nirvana or the members' record labels have not yet responded to the lawsuit.</p>.<p>Elden recreated the album cover multiple times, including for its 25th anniversaries.</p>.<p>Weddle, the original photographer, was a friend of his father's, the family told NPR in 2008.</p>.<p>They held a pool party during which Elden posed for the then-unknown band. Elden's parents were paid $200 for the original shoot.</p>
<p>The US man who featured as a baby on the cover of Nirvana's "Nevermind" album, one of the most famous album covers of all time, is suing the band for sexual exploitation, according to a lawsuit.</p>.<p>Spencer Elden was photographed in 1991, when he was four months old, naked in a swimming pool reaching for a dollar bill on a fish hook. The album went on to sell 30 million copies, with songs such as "Smells Like Teen Spirit" becoming American pop cultural touchstones.</p>.<p>But neither Elden nor his legal guardians "ever signed a release authorizing the use of any images of Spencer or of his likeness, and certainly not of commercial child pornography depicting him," the lawsuit said.</p>.<p>It also said Elden had never received any compensation for the image, and asked for $150,000 in damages from each of the 15 defendants -- including the surviving former members of the band, Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic, as well as the estate of the late lead singer Kurt Cobain, and the photographer, Kirk Weddle.</p>.<p>The album cover "exposed Spencer's intimate body part and lasciviously displayed Spencer's genitals from the time he was an infant to the present day," the lawsuit, filed in California, said.</p>.<p>It said Elden had suffered "extreme and permanent emotional distress," as well as "lifelong loss of income earning capacity," among other consequences.</p>.<p>Representatives for Nirvana or the members' record labels have not yet responded to the lawsuit.</p>.<p>Elden recreated the album cover multiple times, including for its 25th anniversaries.</p>.<p>Weddle, the original photographer, was a friend of his father's, the family told NPR in 2008.</p>.<p>They held a pool party during which Elden posed for the then-unknown band. Elden's parents were paid $200 for the original shoot.</p>