Transferring documents from a PC to Mac Book Pro - permissions

I was using Dropbox to transfer "My Documents" on old PC to my new Mac Book Pro.  I was losing some documents in the process, so decided to transfer with DVDs.  I have now placed them into the Mac's Documents folder, but when I go into any of the documents, I don't have "permissions" to edit?
Does this have anything to do with the authentication process that I think I went through when transferring/using Dropbox?

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