Can neural network tensors be seen as an encoding?

If I copy source code and save it in an UTF-8 text file it is subjected to licensing. Now if the same information is represented in a neural network all of a sudden this 'trained data' is intelligence.

It's a complex representation of the data, and some data may be a bit scrambled, but still in a way it's also an encoding of source data which should be treated as having an origin and an author.