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Originally Posted by nogle
You do not gain a copyright when you purchase the atoms, you gain a single license to the bits to use in the fixed form.
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While copyright certainly isn't transferred, ownership of the atoms does convey slightly more than what you describe. Consider CDs. You not only own the atoms that form the pits that encode the music, you are also (in the US) permitted to make copies of the data so encoded for personal user.