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This page explains what you can and cannot do, with the contents of this CD. All the contents are copyright, but we give you some permissions to use the contents of the CD in certain ways. Our aim? To maximize the fun for everyone! Read on for more details…
What you can do with individual puzzles
You can make as many copies as you like of individual puzzles – email them to your friends, print them into birthday cards, put them in your newsletter, website or blog – even on a regular basis! We ask that for mass distribution, you acknowledge where you got the puzzles, for example via a link back to www.cryptarithmania.com.
What you can do with the whole CD
You can make backup copies, or put your working copy on any media (eg, a thumb drive, or your computer hard disk). We strongly suggest you don’t try to print out all four million puzzles! You can make the CD available over a home computer network, or a small office network. Don’t give copies to your friends, unless you delete all your own copies first. Don’t put the CD – or significant portions – on the internet. If you really want to make it available on a large computer network, contact us first and make an offer for a site licence. If your friend needs a copy, show them where to buy it. This way, we can keep on making great puzzles and other fun educational stuff for everyone to enjoy!
I’m confused! Can you give some examples?
Sure! Here’s a few examples of how people might want to use the CD, and what we think of the suggestions…
- Alice copies the CD onto her hard disk at home. She also puts a copy on her thumb drive, and takes it to work, so she can solve puzzles during her lunch break. We say : Go for it, Alice! Enjoy the puzzles!
- Barry runs a website of word puzzles. He picks out twenty of the puzzles, puts them in a PDF file, and uploads it to his website. Then he announces his new cryptarithm puzzle page in his email newsletter. We say : Hope your visitors like the puzzles! Don’t forget to link to us!
- Charlene is the editor for the puzzle page (page 7) of a weekly magazine. She’s received a few letters from readers asking for cryptarithm puzzles, so she buys the CD, and starts picking out a puzzle from the CD each week. Her readers love it, and subscriptions begin to increase. She wonders if this is allowed. We say : Sure, just make sure something like “Puzzles from cryptarithmania.com” is printed near the puzzles.
- Darryl has to cover for Charlene when she goes on leave to tour Europe. They ask their IT guys to put the puzzle CD on the company intranet so he doesn’t need to use her computer to access the puzzles. We say : Feel free!
- Esther is a curriculum adviser for a large chain of private schools. She includes two dozen of our puzzles in a set of syllabus guidance documents distributed to the fifth grade teachers within their group. These teaching guides are sold to other schools as well. The teacher’s notes say “Puzzles copyright Polytope Media”, without the website, and the photocopiable student handouts don’t mention us at all. We say : We’re always glad to help kids learn!
- Frank decides to post a weekly puzzle on the wall above the water cooler at work. He forgets to credit us in any way. We say : Not a problem, Frank, we hope your colleagues enjoy the puzzles!
- Giselle likes the letter G so much, she uploads all the puzzles starting with G onto her website. We say : Sorry, Giselle, although we appreciate your hobby, we’d rather you didn’t do that.
- Harry likes the CD so much, he burns some copies for two of his friends. We say : We’re glad you like the CD, but we’d rather you didn’t do that. Instead, email them individual puzzles, or print out some of your favourites onto nice paper. Or, you could buy your friends copies of the CD as a creative Christmas gift!
Hope that makes sense!
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