The Future of Privacy Forum is one of the groups that pushed for and helped design the symbol.

FORBES: Online privacy gets its very own symbol

"The symbol has become so identified with The Velvet Underground that members of the public... immediately recognise the banana design as the symbol of The Velvet Underground, " court papers said.

BBC: Velvet Underground lose Andy Warhol copyright claim

She set out to make him the symbol of all that was worthwhile in design.

ECONOMIST: Elizabeth Gordon