Wal-Mart grabbed the image as it’s corporate logo in 1996 and fought The Smiley company over it and finally settled in 2007, the terms unknown. And the man who first came up with it made $45 ...

The story behind the happiness symbol isn't as cheerful as you'd expect. The Mona Lisa might have the most iconic smile in history, but one could argue the yellow smiley face comes pretty close ...

Nirvana has been in court for years over the famous drawing – a yellow smiley face with X’d-out eyes that first appeared during promotion for 1991’s Nevermind.

Nirvana's smiley face logo lawsuit against designer Marc Jacobs has been settled after years of ... a yellow smiley face with X’d-out eyes — first appeared during promotion for 1991’s ...

Of the six billion emoji that are sent globally every day, around 70% are emotion based – for example, smiley face, love hearts. A smaller proportion of the emoji sent are sad expressions.

A complicated years-long three-way lawsuit involving Nirvana's famous smiley face logo has now been quietly settled out of court. The band sued Marc Jacobs in 2018, claiming the fashion designer ...