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Originally Posted by Josieb1
I am guessing the writer feels a story written by them and offered as a PDF is less likely to be copied and posted by someone else as 'their' story if it needs to be converted to a RTF first. If they offered RTF or word downloads then those stories would be easy to pass off as written by someone else.
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Given that most fan fiction is itself breaking copyright law by creating a "derived work" without the original author's permission, I can't help seeing a certain irony in the authors of such work complaining about
their "rights" being violated
.