> We used to have the right to copy whatever we wanted and be accountable to no one. Unless you copied something of value to a rich and powerful person, in whi

> We used to have the right to copy whatever we wanted and be accountable to no one. Unless you copied something of value to a rich and powerful person, in which case your accountability would likely be quite high. Also, "copying" before 1790 meant something rather different than cp(1).