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Publishing date: May 05, 2021 • 4 hours ago • 1 minute read • This Dec. 13, 1993 file photo shows Nirvana singer Kurt Cobain. Photo by Robert Sorbo /AP, File
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Nirvana is facing a copyright infringement lawsuit over merchandise allegedly featuring a C.W. Scott-Giles illustration.
The lawsuit was filed by Jocelyn Susan Bundy, the granddaughter of Scott-Giles and “sole surviving relative and sole successor-in-title to the copyright in the works created by her late grandfather,” against Nirvana LLC, Live Nation Merchandise, Merch Traffic and Silva Artist Management.
Hat courtesy of the Houghton Library. Photograph by Jim Harrison
The first hot-air balloon trip across the English Channel began buoyantly. “We rose slowly and majestically from the Cliff,” wrote John Jeffries, A.B. 1763. A “beautiful assembly” cheered on the Boston-born medical doctor and his more expert partner, French inventor and balloonist Jean-Pierre Blanchard (who had hoped to leave Jeffries behind, despite his funding of the expedition).
But floating technology in 1785 wasn’t what it is today. Fifty minutes into the January trip, the balloon began to descend and the two tossed off a couple sacks of ballast to lighten their load. Forty minutes later, the balloon sank again. “We immediately threw out all the little things we had with us,” Jeffries wrote. “Biscuits, apples, &c, and after that one of our oars or wings; but still descending, we cast away the other wing.” The situation grew more desperate. “Still approaching the sea,” he recalled, “we bega