{"id":1239,"date":"2012-09-11T12:16:58","date_gmt":"2012-09-11T16:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/?p=1239"},"modified":"2012-09-11T12:16:58","modified_gmt":"2012-09-11T16:16:58","slug":"the-velvet-underground-loses-banana-lawsuit-to-the-warhol-foundation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2012\/09\/11\/the-velvet-underground-loses-banana-lawsuit-to-the-warhol-foundation\/","title":{"rendered":"The Velvet Underground Loses Banana Lawsuit To The Warhol Foundation"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A while ago, members of the Velvet Underground filed a lawsuit against the\u00c2\u00a0Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts<\/a> for using their <\/em>iconic album cover\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Warhol banana on schwag, among other complaints. They were particularly unsettled by the extensive licensing the foundation had planned for a series of Apple accessories. A federal judge has just dismissed<\/a> the banana bit of the lawsuit, but the lawsuit goes on.<\/a><\/p>\n

Sure, the ripe yellow fruit \u00e2\u20ac\u0153became a symbol, truly an icon, of the Velvet Underground\u00e2\u20ac\u009d for generations of fans and revivalists, but the Velvet Underground never officially copyrighted the banana. Neither did Andy Warhol. It was up for grabs. The Foundation, in turn, never sued the Velvet Underground for their peddling of the banana, but now our well-aged cultural heroes will have to live with their<\/em> fruit garlanding iPhones and iPads.<\/p>\n

So\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 really. Whose banana? Who\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s more famous? Who will Nico come to avenge-haunt these days?<\/p>\n

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A while ago, members of the Velvet Underground filed a lawsuit against the\u00c2\u00a0Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts for using their iconic album cover\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Warhol banana on schwag, among other complaints. They were particularly unsettled by the extensive licensing the foundation had planned for a series of Apple accessories. A federal judge has just … <\/p>\n

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