Can't copy background for grayscale manipulation

I have several grayscale scans of old black-and-white photographs in tif format. I want to improve the image quality, and the tutorial I found involves creating duplicate layers containing the original image, placing them on top of the original image, and making some changes in the added layers. I assumed I could simply copy the original and paste to create a new layer. Photoshop lets me select all but copy is grayed out. I suspect the problem is that when I started this project, I opened Photoshop, the opened the scan and saved the result as a psd. Photoshop now regards the image as a background, and apparently forbids copying a background? I tried creating a new blank psd with the same dimensions as the scanned photo, thinking I could copy the scan into the blank psd and thus create a new layer. But once again when I opened the tif, the copy option was grayed out. Seems like such a simple problem but I haven't found an answer anywhere I looked.

Under Image > Mode, Grayscale is checked.
If I right click on the Background layer, all the options that come up are grayed out. If I use the small arrow at top right of the Layers palette, everything is grayed out except Dock To Palette Wall and Palette Options. If I go to Layer in the menu bar, all options are grayed out. The image appears to be locked. I Googled how to unlock a Photoshop image, and the advice was to rename the image. Photoshop won't let me do that either.
This is really, really odd. I'm not a heavy Photoshop user, but I seem to remember doing this often in the past without any problem.

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