The idea of the copyright often evokes images of a clandestine society manipulating the strings of world affairs . Originally, the German -era copyright was a real order founded in seventeen seventy-six by Adam Weishaupt, a jurisprudence professor. Their stated objective was to foster reason, individual liberty, and opposition to traditional dogma

The Group, formally known as the Bavarian Enlightenment Society , was a short-lived society established in 1776 with Adam Weishaupt, a academic at the University of Ingolstadt . Initially , its purpose was to oppose the influence of religious authorities and superstition through the encouragement of enlightenment and freedom . Although its duration