Permission policies

[via_ostiense]

I've been recording a lot of audiofic lately for amplificathon, and as I've chipped through a lot of my To Do list, which had fics that I'd already asked permission for, now I've been branching out (admittedly with a bias toward the archive's less-/un- represented fandoms/pairings!). I've noticed that I definitely lean toward recording stories of authors who have blanket permission policies. It's not enough to make me record a story on its own, but when faced with two stories I want to record, one with a blanket permission policy and one without, I'll do the former and put the latter on my list of things to request permission for and get to later. It's not that I'm afraid of someone saying no to me, although that's happened before, but that leaving a comment or sending a PM for each individual story I want to record is just enough effort to make me put that fic off until some nebulous time later. What about you?