A copyright infringement lawsuit over the circles of hell image famously used on Nirvana’s merchandise since the 1990s has been dismissed, but mainly because a judge in the Californian court where the lawsuit was filed reckons the legal battle would be better fought in the UK courts.The image in question was seemingly created in the late 1940s by British writer CW Scott-Giles, depicting Upper Hell as described in Dante Alighieri’s ‘The Divine Comedy’.
Scott-Giles’ image then appeared in a Dorothy L Sayers’ translation of the fourteenth century poem.The lawsuit over Nirvana’s use of the image was filed earlier this year by Jocelyn Susan Bundy, who says that she is the sole surviving relative of Scott-Giles, who died in 1982, and therefore.
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