https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/right#English https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/right#English All of the different meanings and connotations of "right" come from G

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/right#English https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/right#English All of the different meanings and connotations of "right" come from Germanic and earlier Indo-European words referring to straightness or directness. That includes the meanings about legal rights (which is the sense used in the term "copyright"), meanings about correctness or propriety, and meanings about the direction opposite left, among others. Most of this family of meanings is also found in other European languages, like with German "recht" and French "droit". In the legal sense you can oppose English "crooked" (literally, not straight) and French "tort" (same meaning), both of which refer to kinds of legal impropriety.