Copy is a specific thing in Rust, it means that if a type implements the Copy trait, it can be copied via a memcpy, that is, it’s like a “shallow” copy as opposed to a “deep” copy.

So they’re not “copying without copying”, they’re letting you treat a non-Copy type as a Copy type, in my understanding.

> what if it’s something that doesn’t have a static lifetime?

The read me says it requires static content so the answer is “you can’t do that.”