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> Can you think of an obvious technical reason why copy/paste doesn't work
> across active layers?  Perhaps to handle objects located on multiple layers
> simultaneously?

Most likely, because you can copy things that span multiple layers,
and you don't want to collapse them all onto one layer each time.