In the middle nineteen sixties Warhol also managed a rock band called The Velvet Underground.
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"The symbol has become so identified with TheVelvetUnderground that members of the public... immediately recognise the banana design as the symbol of TheVelvetUnderground, " court papers said.
The judge said on Friday said The Warhol Foundation's agreement not to sue for copyright infringement over TheVelvet Underground's use of the image meant there was no copyright dispute for her to resolve.