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Legendary rockers Lou Reed and John Cale aren’t waiting for The Man to resolve their trademark claim over the iconic banana on the ... pop artist Andy Warhol. Reed and Cale sued The Andy Warhol ...
Furthermore, it’s alleged that Andy Warhol based his banana cover artwork “from an element of an advertisement in the public domain.” According to the plaintiff, copyright law confers no ...
The Andy Warhol Foundation has gone on the offensive against the Velvet Underground in the ongoing legal saga over the banana design that graces the rock group's 1967 debut album. In court papers ...
Against a white background, sits the famed banana, and written in cursive to the right is a signature resembling pop-artist Andy Warhol. The story begins with Warhol and his friend Paul Morrisey.
That’s all it takes to make a trademark, if they can prove it, so the Velvet Underground has filed a suit against The Andy ... the Warhol Foundation has no copyright interest in the banana.
A federal judge has dismissed part of The Velvet Underground’s lawsuit accusing the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts of violating its rights to an iconic banana image used on the rock ...
It's nice when Andy Warhol and the Velvet ... Members of the band are suing the Warhol Foundation, saying it illegally licensed Warhol's banana image that appears on The Velvet Underground ...
Leading the collaboration is the Andy Warhol Banana Collectible Phone Case, a larger-than-life protective case celebrating his famed “Banana” works. Complementing the case is the Andy Warhol ...
In attempting to dismiss a lawsuit over the famous banana album cover, the defendant asks: Didn't this band break up 40 years ago? By Eriq Gardner Former Legal Editor-at-Large The Andy Warhol ...
The Velvet Underground settled a lawsuit claiming that the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts infringed a trademark for the banana design that appeared on the cover of one of the band’s ...