if you alter something in any noticeable manner, regardless of who created it, the altered version automatically becomes yours, with which you can do whatever you want And it's deliberate misinformation like that which causes so much bloody trouble. There are a whole bunch of merchants in recent months who would disagree with that statement alone, before we even get to the point that it's WRONG. quoteOnly the owner of copyright in a work has the right to prepare, or to authorize someone else to create a new version of that work. Accordingly, you cannot claim copyright to another's work, no matter how much you change it, unless you have the owner's consent.*** Want to check that? http://www.loc.gov/copyright/circs/circ14.pdf