Translating, Podfics, Playing in my Sandbox and Archiving Requests

[kellifer]

I've gotten a lot of messages about this lately so just thought I would put a little explanation here to kind of put my scattered thoughts into one place.

Podfics

Blanket permission.

I'm almost always fine with podfics and will usually say yes to those. The only time I would probably hesitate is if you ask about podficcing a story where I know someone is recording it at that very time. I actually think having more than one version of a podfic for a story is fine - people reinterpret in different ways so I think that makes the recordings different even if the content of the story is the same. I just ask that you let me know and send me the link after so I can share!

Followups/stories in a verse of mine/remixes

Please let me know first.

Again, usually I'm really flattered about these and most likely will say yes. The only reason I wouldn't for any of these requests is if I'm working on something in that verse and that time and I suspect yours will better it might end up being very similar to the story I'm writing.

Art

Blanket permission.

ALWAYS okay. Just let me know, I want to see it!

Translations and Archiving

No.

I've decided that I'm not really comfortable with others translating my fic or archiving my stories outside my LJ or my own AO3. Don't get me wrong, I totally appreciate the offer, I'm just not entirely comfortable with versions of my stories on the internet where I can't be sure what's going on with them. Also, the first couple of times I said yes to translations and I've requested that they provide me with a link to the translated story when it's done, it hasn't happened. The person may have decided not to go ahead with it or what have you but each time I have simply never heard from them again.

I pretty much abandoned the website idea because I didn't feel like I had enough "control". I do well in the job I do in RL because I'm a control freak in certain aspects of my life.

Honestly, if you're going to do .pdf conversions just to pass to friends, I'm totally okay with that too as long as they aren't archived on a website somewhere.

I just wanted to articulate the 'no' with these in a way that doesn't have me umm-ing and ah-ing and being otherwise incoherent about it.