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So any collection of facts sufficient to reconstruct a copy of the work, legally, is a copy of the work, even if the individual pieces of information individually are not excerpts or real creative works subject to copyright themselves?
– interfect
Commented Oct 25, 2023 at 14:35
What if the "cipher" isn't inefficient, but is rather a simple recipe for transforming a public-domain work into one for which copyright is claimed, e.g. 'Starting with the public domain song "Good morning to all", replace every occurrence of "Good morning" with "Happy birthday", and change the last word "all" to "you"'?
– supercat
Commented Jan 26 at 23:39

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