Thanks for this post and for continuing to be a champion of the cause. It's frustrating for me to finally be in a large-ish fandom and STILL not be able to find fic that has any sort of transformative works statement. I think it's getting a lot more visibility and more authors are giving statements than ever before, but clearly there's still a lot of work to do about spreading the word.
Thanks to all the people that responded to this post and said you've done this. I appreciate it greatly as it makes my life as a podficcer much easier and means I can find a fic today and record it tomorrow if I want without having to wait for someone to get back to me or feeling like I'm bothering an author by sending them messages across platforms.
I also appreciate the perspectives here. It's not incorrect to say that someone creating a podfic of your work is a rec of sorts, because it can be, but very few (if any) people making transformative works do it to make the author happy (unless the author happens to be a friend of yours). Certainly I have podficced things just because I loved the fic so much and I needed to record it and share it and spend more time with it, but podfic takes TIME, which is something I think isn't often spoken about. It's not as though I just read a story, decide to record it, read it into a microphone for half an hour, then post it. It's hours of my life spent recording, editing, re-recording (sometimes), adding music/effects sometimes, making cover art, uploading, creating a post...it's an effort so if I'm going to do it it might be as a thanks to the author for a story or a recommendation, sure, but it's also because I wanted to create my own art with it, and I don't want people to lose that perspective.
Anyway, as someone who is accumulating a list of things to podfic and NONE of them has a transformative works statements, thanks for the advocacy and I ask all of you with statements and all of you reading this to share this with your friends so we can spread the word across fandom and hopefully help out our fellow fen.
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Date: 2018-01-14 07:06 pm (UTC)Thanks to all the people that responded to this post and said you've done this. I appreciate it greatly as it makes my life as a podficcer much easier and means I can find a fic today and record it tomorrow if I want without having to wait for someone to get back to me or feeling like I'm bothering an author by sending them messages across platforms.
I also appreciate the perspectives here. It's not incorrect to say that someone creating a podfic of your work is a rec of sorts, because it can be, but very few (if any) people making transformative works do it to make the author happy (unless the author happens to be a friend of yours). Certainly I have podficced things just because I loved the fic so much and I needed to record it and share it and spend more time with it, but podfic takes TIME, which is something I think isn't often spoken about. It's not as though I just read a story, decide to record it, read it into a microphone for half an hour, then post it. It's hours of my life spent recording, editing, re-recording (sometimes), adding music/effects sometimes, making cover art, uploading, creating a post...it's an effort so if I'm going to do it it might be as a thanks to the author for a story or a recommendation, sure, but it's also because I wanted to create my own art with it, and I don't want people to lose that perspective.
Anyway, as someone who is accumulating a list of things to podfic and NONE of them has a transformative works statements, thanks for the advocacy and I ask all of you with statements and all of you reading this to share this with your friends so we can spread the word across fandom and hopefully help out our fellow fen.