Nirvana have been sued by the granddaughter of a British man who created the circles of hell image that has been used on the band’s merchandise since the 1990s.
She claims that that use was unlicensed and therefore infringed her grandfather’s copyright.The image was seemingly created in the late 1940s by 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.Jocelyn Susan Bundy says that she is the sole surviving relative of Scott-Giles, who died in 1984, and therefore the successor-in-title to his copyright.
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