Perhaps. Mere mechanical transformation is not copyrightable, but the decisions about how to apply transformations is. Under US Copyright guidelines "the work

Perhaps. Mere mechanical transformation is not copyrightable, but the decisions about how to apply transformations is. Under US Copyright guidelines "the work will be copyrightable to the extent that their contributions qualify as authorship ... the requisite level of creativity is extremely low; even a slight amount will suffice" but in a case where a printer rescaled maps on behalf of the plaintiff: "the “compilation needed only simple transcription to achieve final tangible form.”54 Because the printer “did not change the substance of [plaintiff’s] original expression,” the court held that the plaintiff was the author" https://www.copyright.gov/ai/Copyright-and-Artificial-Intelligence-Part-2-Copyrightability-Report.pdf https://www.copyright.gov/ai/Copyright-and-Artificial-Intell...