"Perhaps. Perhaps not." Her tone turned musing, more inwardly reflective. "It's true that in the older days the idea of litigation over an idea hadn't yet been invented - so who really knows. Maybe that was the only thing standing between those old poets and play-writes and a copyright lawsuit."

It was, frankly, an admission that annoyed more than she wanted to show. She liked to believe that there really had been a time where the sharing of ideas was more free. Where theft only left creative souls mildly vexed before moving on to come up with something new.