Sandra and Woo now published under Creative Commons license
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 https://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.
German pirate party arrg me hearties tighten the mainsail and shiver me timbers arrrg
Yes! Enter the FDP! They are weakened to only 1.8%! 😀
And if you live in berlin i’m happy because I live in the same city like an awesome cartoonist.
i’ve seen your add up in tf2, i’m glad to see you’ve come so far as to be known there too. much support.
@ Landbark:
It is.
I strongly support and applaud your use of the Creative Commons license, as it shows a real and sympathetic understanding of the push and pull between the demands of the marketplace and authors’ rights. Some of the best music of the world is available under the same CC BY-NC-ND license that you are using, and even more is available under licenses that allow end users other freedoms — see, for example, the last two albums by Nine Inch Nails, which are both under CC.
Readers who are interested in learning more about what Creative Commons really is (as opposed to the misinformation some content providers spread, more out of ignorance than malice) should visit the website at http://creativecommons.org .
I always wondered, does “No derivative works: You may not alter, transform, or build upon the comic strip/page.” mean “no fanfiction and no fanart”?
@ guest:
It does not. It means that you are not allowed to create anything that STARTS with one of the original comic strips, e.g. removing the text from the word balloons and replacing it with LOLspeak, or pasting a meme troll face over one of the characters’ faces.
Fanfiction and fanart are original works derived from characters and situations made by the original creator. For the purposes of the CC license, a derivative work is an alteration of the actual material presented to the public by the creator.
In the musical world, the equivalent would be writing a song based on ideas from another writer (e.g. “Henry and James” by Dave Stewart and Barbara Gaskin being based on characters from “Leipzig” by Thomas Dolby), vs. taking that writer’s recorded output and remixing it, or recording a cover version of that writer’s song.
I hope that clarifies things?
@ Baxtrr:
<.< Removing my right to LOLspeak and Memes is not happiness inspiring. 😛
Does this mean it’s ok to print out copies of the strips? It’s the one downfall of online comics, you can’t cut them out of the funny pages and put them on the wall at work.
@ kyrielslight:
I’m pretty sure you’re allowed to print it now, as long as you don’t charge people money for looking at them. I’m not sure if you were allowed to print it before but I found the comic because of someone who printed one or two of the strips and hung them up at a wall (with some other comics too, like dilbert and xkcd).