I didn't want specific stories of mine podficced. The main one is a work in progress that's been revised a few times. To be honest, there are other stories of mine I wouldn't want to have read aloud because a component of their structure is visual -- they weren't created with recording in mind. Yeah, I know the argument about reading your work aloud to see if it's well constructed, but I also know that there are good stories that sound like crap read that way. Try reading Wodehouse aloud, some time. Different effect altogether from the impact on the page.

However, in one case I refused any recording by a podficcer who had recorded and distributed other authors' work without permission or notification. For some reason, she asked me about a planned podfic and was astonished (and felt persecuted) when I was annoyed about her other recordings. It got nasty.

So, with that in mind, I meant "is" as the ongoing as well as the immediate harvesting of an author's work.

I realized after the encounter with the unauthorized podficcer and the friends to whom she distributed her recordings, that some people will do whatever they want with fan work. They bristle at the idea that they need the author's "permission" but might dimly understand that it's polite to let the writer know that the recording of her work is taking place.