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Copyright restricts copying, it doesn't restrict similar, or even identical, expressions that are independently generated (a jury may see similarity as evidence of copying, so merely the theoretical possibility that a similar work was independently arrived at doesn't get you a free pass from liability, but similarity itself isn't restricted by copyright.)

So, no, the fact that a sequence of bytes occurs in a particular digital recording doesn't mean that the copyright owner of that recording "owns" that series of bytes. It means they own a specified set of rights in that particular recording.

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