LOS ANGELES—Fashion label Marc Jacobs, artist Robert Fisher and Nirvana’s company have resolved a Los Angeles lawsuit over the use of a smiley face design the grunge-rock band placed on its T-shirts, according to court papers obtained Wednesday.
In December 2018, the general partnership controlling Nirvana’s copyrights sued the design label for allegedly lifting the logo for the brand’s Bootleg Redux Grunge collection. Fisher later filed a motion to claim authorship of the design.
In papers filed this week in Los Angeles federal court, the judge overseeing the case permanently dismissed the suit based on a stipulated settlement. All parties are responsible for their own attorneys’s fees and costs, the judge wrote in the one-page written ruling….