The machine is performing some sort of transformation. Whether you want to call that a "(creative) work" or not is irrelevant to the point I was making: The mac

The machine is performing some sort of transformation. Whether you want to call that a "(creative) work" or not is irrelevant to the point I was making: The machine is doing something to the input, and that makes the 'cp' comment I replied to kind of silly. I think we can assume the author doesn't believe that piping bytes through the 'cp' command automatically removes copyright (as the person I replied to suggested).