Nicholas Goldberg: Trump's view — How can I make money off it?
What's the difference between songwriter-satirist Tom Lehrer and narcissist ex-President Donald Trump? That's probably not a question you've ever thought to ask. But two recent stories — both about intellectual property law — have helped answer that question nevertheless. Let's take them one at a time. Many people today don't remember Tom Lehrer. He wrote songs that took on social and ...
by Nicholas Goldberg, Los Angeles Times
Feb 03, 2023
3 minutes
What's the difference between songwriter-satirist Tom Lehrer and narcissist ex-President Donald Trump? That's probably not a question you've ever thought to ask.
But two recent stories — both about intellectual property law — have helped answer that question nevertheless.
Let's take them one at a time.
Many people today don't remember Tom Lehrer. He wrote songs that took on social and political issues in the 1950s and 1960s; his sardonic, black-humor parodies made fun of nuclear war, the Boy Scouts, Catholicism, bigotry, air pollution, cannibalism, masochism and math, to name just
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