Blanket Permission Statement for Podfic
I just listened to this filk podfic asking folk to add blanket permission statements to their works.
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
https://archiveofourown.org/chapters/169939036
They also link to this (https://www.inklewriter.com/stories/115743 ) which describes a fandom permission statement and this BP Highlighter on GitHub https://github.com/BrickGrass/Blanket-Permission-Highlighter
I've always felt a little weird about blanket permission statements, because I have been more of a Creative Commons kinda girl, and it seems like these two permission systems are exclusive from each other.
Creative Commons licenses give everyone from individual creators to large institutions a standardized way to grant the public permission to
Blanket Permission statements were things made within the fandom community as a way to speed up the process of asking for permission to make a derivative work. Do you need permission to make a derivative work?
No, but if you don't ask, since US law says that permission is retained by the author by default, they can content block you after you went to the trouble to make the podfic or derivative work, and it will need to be taken down.
So, fans said, "Can you please tell us that we can make derivative works from your stuff?" and the default way to do this is a blanket permission statement.
But, what if I want to retain the right for me to podfic it first? I end up having a much longer permission statement which for me is simply an "ask first".
But I am concerned that corporations might take the blanket permission statement as equivalent to releasing into the public domain which in creative commons language is CC0. I usually prefer to release things CC attribution which means, at least admit that I wrote it.
So, I would like AO3 to add a provision to give out a CC license for works. The copyleft licenses could allow me to request some works be non-commercial and others to be public domain or attribution.
Our fan statements are not licenses at all. They are "gentlepeople's agreements" and although they work as long as we stay a small group of similarly minded people. They are ripe for abuse as the community becomes more mainstream.
Thoughts?
