Question Regarding Podficcing Protocol
Okay, so. For all that I've been dedicating my free end-of-summer hours to podficcing my favorite bookmarked fics, I'm still relatively unsure of a lot of procedure and protocol.
Scenario: Let's say you've found this really fantastically amazing story, in an archive or through the wayback machine or in an old old newsletter. This story has it all, in a fandom you love that's kinda under-represented, and you already know the perfect song to preface it with. However, the author is no longer online, or has changed her name/account/mortality status/residence to Amish Country, or it's been seven years since the story was written and the contact e-mail provided with the story is no longer viable. What do you do? Is that story off-limits to podficcing? Should you go ahead and record it anyway? Should you try contacting the author, wait a month for any kind of response, and then go for it? 'Cause, well, there's a few longish fics that I've got bookmarked that fit the above, and I don't know what to do with them.... Please and thank you for any assistance provided! (Also, I wasn't entirely sure what to tag this as....)
Scenario: Let's say you've found this really fantastically amazing story, in an archive or through the wayback machine or in an old old newsletter. This story has it all, in a fandom you love that's kinda under-represented, and you already know the perfect song to preface it with. However, the author is no longer online, or has changed her name/account/mortality status/residence to Amish Country, or it's been seven years since the story was written and the contact e-mail provided with the story is no longer viable. What do you do? Is that story off-limits to podficcing? Should you go ahead and record it anyway? Should you try contacting the author, wait a month for any kind of response, and then go for it? 'Cause, well, there's a few longish fics that I've got bookmarked that fit the above, and I don't know what to do with them.... Please and thank you for any assistance provided! (Also, I wasn't entirely sure what to tag this as....)