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Originally Posted by citac
but to my knowledge, a transformative work is what you get when you take a pre-existing work and make it into something new. Fan fiction is an example of transformative work because it uses characters from a book or TV show and puts them into different settings and situations. Converting from one format to another is I believe called format shifting, and doesn't actually change the content of the file.
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Fan fiction is a derivative work. Derivative works may be given various additional labels, such as "transformative." That descriptive term is often used as part of a fair use analysis to identify works that are derivative works, but also have a great deal of additional independent creative content. A format shifted work is also a derivative work.
None of that tells you whether fan fiction or format shifting is copyright infringement. It may be fair use, it may be permitted by license or statute, etc.