Sandra and Woo and Gaia are now officially published under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

This means you are free to share the comic strips/pages, that means to copy, distribute and transmit them under the following conditions:

• Attribution: You must attribute the creators and the source of the comic strip/page. This means you aren’t allowed to remove the creator names and the website url at the bottom of the comic strip/page. If you want to use a cropped piece of a comic strip/page, the same information has to be found in text format next to the image. An additional link to http://www.sandraandwoo.com/ resp. http://www.gaiacomic.com/ is very appreciated.
• Noncommercial: You may not use the comic strip/page for commercial purposes.
• No derivative works: You may not alter, transform, or build upon the comic strip/page.

The license only applies to the comics in the comic archive written by Oliver Knörzer (Novil) and drawn by Puri Andini (Powree). It doesn’t apply to all other pieces of artwork found on our websites.

In other news, I’m now a member of the German Pirate Party. I don’t agree on some of their political goals, but they are currently the only political party that credibly fights for citizens’ rights and against censorship. In September 2011, they achieved a spectacular result in the Berlin state election with 8.9% of the popular vote.

As a reply to the widespread protests against the censorship laws SOPA and PIPA yesterday, the U.S. government shut down the file sharing site Megaupload.

I myself used Megaupload to distribute a video game mod developed by my mother and her team. Megaupload has also been known to remove pirated movies and music particularly fast compared to other file hosting sites. But since it was the web’s largest file hosting site, it was the perfect scapegoat for the so-called content mafia (MPAA and RIAA).

I believe it is coming close to the point where it becomes a moral obligation of every internet user to give companies that strive to destroy the free internet, maybe the greatest invention in the history of mankind, as little money as possible.

You can help to keep the internet alive by raising your voice against censorship and supporting independent artists!

After the release of Gaia, it’s the right time for another chat with Novil and Powree. The chat is scheduled for Saturday/Sunday, 3/4 December 2011. This time we want to talk mostly about Gaia, but of course you can also ask questions about Sandra and Woo.

Chat time on Saturday/Sunday, 3/4 December 2011:

• US Pacific Time: 17:00 (5:00 p.m.) – Saturday
• US Eastern Time: 20:00 (8:00 p.m.) – Saturday
• Greenwich Mean Time: 1:00 (1:00 a.m.) – Sunday
• Central European Time: 2:00 (2:00 a.m.) – Sunday
• Western Indonesian Time: 8:00 (8:00 a.m.) – Sunday
• Australian Eastern Time: 12:00 (12:00 a.m.) – Sunday
• more countries

Our Flash based chat can be found at: http://www.sandraandwoo.com/misc/chat.html

A good position at the large webcomic voting site TopWebComics is a good way get new readers. Help us to get into the top 10 in December! As a little thank-you for voting for Gaia, you will receive the following wallpaper:

We will post a new voting incentive every week!