I feel like I have two responses to this, one the more abstract and general one and the other the more practical personal one.
Yes, it could be that the turnover time is really short. And that could indicate that large portions of the story were already podficced. But likewise an author who doesn't reply back or says no, because they don't like the person' style/voice may actually give permission to someone else (that has happened to me before). So it's maybe more a matter of plausible deniability? Like, you can't prove that I didn't do this fic in the short time span just like I can't prove that you purposefully hated my reading. And everyone's hopefully not as upset as they might be. (As for the short turnaround--I organized a collective podficcing of a series of stories by multiple authors recently. The last author never responded, so I posted the collection without it to AO3. Within an hour, they contacted me, I found a fourth reader, they recorded and edited it, I changed the cover image, reformatted everything and uploaded the new version. It was a short story and we all had time on our hands, so it worked...but not I'm thinking the author might have thought I had ity all already preplanned...when I really didn't :)
Which brings me to my personal response. Recording the fic is by far the smallest effort in a podfic production for me. Let's say it's a 6K story, which translates to about an hour. I may record the story before I ask permission, which takes around 90 minutes. (If the story is much longer, I probably will only record the first hour or so before i ask). I then ask. Editing the story will take me 8-10 hours, finding music and editing it, creating the cover image will take another 2-3 hours. So as you can see, those 90 minutes that I have initially invested are the much smaller part of the equation. So for me personally, I don't think the case you are describing would occur, but if it did generally, I'd still suggest it's a fear or suspicion rather than the certainty (and all of that presupposes that the author WOULD have a problem with my simply recording it...not all authors do--even those who may feel uncomfortable seeing publicly shared recordings of their work...but then many writers hate having their fic printed out or the formatting changed, and many others do not...)
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Date: 2013-08-28 03:44 pm (UTC)Yes, it could be that the turnover time is really short. And that could indicate that large portions of the story were already podficced. But likewise an author who doesn't reply back or says no, because they don't like the person' style/voice may actually give permission to someone else (that has happened to me before). So it's maybe more a matter of plausible deniability? Like, you can't prove that I didn't do this fic in the short time span just like I can't prove that you purposefully hated my reading. And everyone's hopefully not as upset as they might be. (As for the short turnaround--I organized a collective podficcing of a series of stories by multiple authors recently. The last author never responded, so I posted the collection without it to AO3. Within an hour, they contacted me, I found a fourth reader, they recorded and edited it, I changed the cover image, reformatted everything and uploaded the new version. It was a short story and we all had time on our hands, so it worked...but not I'm thinking the author might have thought I had ity all already preplanned...when I really didn't :)
Which brings me to my personal response. Recording the fic is by far the smallest effort in a podfic production for me. Let's say it's a 6K story, which translates to about an hour. I may record the story before I ask permission, which takes around 90 minutes. (If the story is much longer, I probably will only record the first hour or so before i ask). I then ask. Editing the story will take me 8-10 hours, finding music and editing it, creating the cover image will take another 2-3 hours. So as you can see, those 90 minutes that I have initially invested are the much smaller part of the equation. So for me personally, I don't think the case you are describing would occur, but if it did generally, I'd still suggest it's a fear or suspicion rather than the certainty (and all of that presupposes that the author WOULD have a problem with my simply recording it...not all authors do--even those who may feel uncomfortable seeing publicly shared recordings of their work...but then many writers hate having their fic printed out or the formatting changed, and many others do not...)