I expect that translating a work gives you a claim on the translation, which is a creative work. (Mechanical translation doesn't have this effect)
But now, O Lord, You are our Father, We are the clay, and You our potter; And all of us are the work of Your hand.
Copyright is different from patents in this way: I can own a patent on an extension of an invention that you hold a patent on. I can't own the copyright to a derived work of a work you own the copyright to. In fact, you automatically own the copyright of the derived work that I produced (e.g. Fanfiction)