Someone tried that with MP3's a while ago, as expected they lost: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2009/11/about-those-beatles-songs-its-weirder-than-you-tho

Someone tried that with MP3's a while ago, as expected they lost: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2009/11/about-those-beatles-songs-its-weirder-than-you-thought/ https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2009/11/about-those-beat... > So defiant, in fact, that MRT had actually registered for copyright protection on the songs it was selling. "To make matters worse," says EMI's complaint, "Defendants recently sought to register their infringing sound recordings with the Copyright Office, apparently claiming that because they copied the sound recordings using their own computer system, they now own these digital copies and have the right to distribute them to the public."