A California man who appeared on the cover of Nirvanas Nevermind album as an infant has filed a lawsuit against the band claiming he was the victim of child pornography.

In a complaint filed Tuesday, Spencer Elden accused Nirvana of continuing to benefit from his commercial sexual exploitation 30 years after the albums release.

Defendants knowingly produced, possessed, and advertised commercial child pornography depicting Spencer, and they knowingly received value in exchange for doing so, reads the suit, which can be found in full here . Despite this knowledge, Defendants failed to take reasonable steps to protect Spencer and prevent his widespread sexual exploitation and image trafficking.

Elsewhere in the suit, Elden takes specific aim at Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain , who died in 1994 and has been widely credited with having co-conceived the image with art director Robert Fisher.

Cobain chose the image depicting Spencerlike a sex workergrabbing for a dollar bill that is positioned dangling from a fishhook in front of his nude body with his penis explicitly displayed, the suit alleges.

Elden, 30, is seeking at least $150,000 from each of the 15 named defendants including surviving Nirvana members Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic as well as Cobains widow, Courtney Love , who remains an executor of his estate. He is also seeking legal fees and other unspecified damages.

Representatives for Love and for Universal Music, which now distributes Nirvanas albums, did not immediately respond to HuffPosts requests for comment.