In her podficmeta post helens78 said "It also makes me think that I wish there were a list of authors who are passionate about the value an audiofic reader lends to a story, because I would much, much rather record a story for one of those authors than for one who doesn't see that much value in it."

And while I don't really want to limit the stories that I podfic, it really does make a difference if the author is as excited about it. And knows what they're agreeing to.

I think there are authors out there that give permission, blanket permission even, but don't really consider what that means. I think it's hard because while the podfic community is discussing these things a lot of authors don't even know what podfic is. When they go in, they have a certain set of assumptions they make and assume that that's how it is.

I don't completely blame authors for this. People only have so much fannish time, it makes sense to spend it in parts of fandom you're involved in and trying to catch up on all the meta when someone asks to podfic your works is a lot of work.

I wonder if, as podficers, we should be doing more to put our positions forward. revolutionaryjo made a Dear Author post where she spelled out what she means when she asks permission. I've kind of been thinking of doing one but the way it is in my brain right now would probably scare most authors off (I'm a contract coordinator in RL and my instinct is to write something similar to what I'd use at work :S Fandom is so not the place for that though ;).