# Licensing and Intellectual Property Terms

This repository contains educational documentation, architectural diagrams, procedural checklists, product demonstration screenshots, and a fictional sample screenplay. Because these components represent different categories of intellectual property, they are governed by distinct terms as outlined below.

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## 1. Documentation & Educational Content

All original written documentation, educational guides, checklists, and technical reference material in this repository—including markdown files in `/`, `/guides/`, and `/docs/`—are licensed under the **Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)** license.

### Permissions
Under CC BY 4.0, you are free to:
- **Share**: Copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format.
- **Adapt**: Remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially.

### Requirements
- **Attribution**: You must give appropriate credit (Alex Cartner / Screenplay Security Guide), provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.

For the full legal code, see [Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 Legal Code](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode).

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## 2. Product Screenshots & Demonstrations

The screenshots contained in `/screenshots/` illustrate document security workflows, access gating, watermarking controls, and reader analytics using [SendNow](https://sendnow.live/) as an exemplary implementation.

- These images are included for non-commercial documentation, educational, and instructional purposes.
- Any identifiable personal information (such as IP addresses and personal email handles) has been sanitized or redacted to preserve privacy.
- Product interfaces and user-interface layouts remain the intellectual property of SendNow.
- Third-party trademarks and brand references (including "SendNow", "Chrome", "macOS", and respective service marks) belong to their respective owners. Mention does not imply sponsorship or affiliation.

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## 3. Sample Screenplay Content

The sample screenplay file located in `/examples/sample-screenplay.pdf` ("THE LAST CUT"):
- Is a **fictional demonstration script** created solely for document security testing, layout evaluation, and workflow demonstration.
- Is licensed under the **Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)** license.
- It may be freely shared and used for testing document workflows, but may not be used for commercial production or adapted into derivative scripts without explicit permission.

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## 4. Software & Code Snippets

Any automation scripts, configuration files, or code snippets contained in this repository are licensed under the **MIT License**:

```text
Copyright (c) 2026 Alex Cartner

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
SOFTWARE.
```