adding copyright as footer
I have arranged a movement of a symphony for string sextet and want to add copyright information at the bottom of the first page (only) of my score and each of my parts.
I have tried repeatedly in various ways to use the style/general/headers and footers dialog box and its macros to do this without success. Finally, I created this in Word: 'Copyright © Keith Lawrence 2018' and pasted it into the 'odd/middle' box. This was successful however the copyright footer now appears on every odd numbered page. I want it only on the first page.
Please help with this work-around or how to use the macros.
Thank you.
Keith Lawrence
Comments
Add it in File/Score Properties/copyright and it will automagically be in the default footer via the
$:copyright:or$Cmacro.Edit: here you want the
$Cmacro, to have it on first page only, see https://musescore.org/en/handbook/score-propertiesIn reply to Add it in File/Score… by Jojo-Schmitz
I've often thought that this default setting is wrong. Copyright info belongs on the first page only.
In reply to I've often thought that this… by Isaac Weiss
This has been discussed before, and there were two schools of thought that both seemed valid. FWIW, I tend to also like it on first page only, and this is most common the US. But in some countries, it is expected on every page apparently.
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If you have a cover page preceding the score, a workaround is to simply add Staff Text over any stave, then drag it, centered, to the bottom of the page. Some publishers need the copyright "in the first page of the music" and this covers the case of a cover page preceding the actual score.
I would like to add that if you change the first page number in the Page Settings menu, the "show copyright only on first page" should follow the page with the number 1.
Current behaviour: the setting "show copyright only on first page" will always show the copyright in the first "physical" page.
Expected behaviour: the setting "show copyright only on first page" follow the page numbered as 1 even when you change it from the Page Settings menu.
In reply to I would like to add that if… by brkncd
Well, that's a wrong expectation then, for an option called "show copyright only on first page".
You'd need an option "show copyright only on page one".
In reply to Well, that's a wrong… by Jojo-Schmitz
Let's say it would be nice to have both options
In reply to Let's say it would be nice… by brkncd
Yes, including "first page of section"
I recommend to add a text frame to the end of page 1.
You can achieve this by applying the page-break to the text-frame itself
(rather than to the last bar of page 1).
Two of the largest sheetmusic publishers
sheetmusicplus.com and sheetmusicdirec.com
require the copyright to appear on the first page (only).
For that purpose the copyright function of muse score is not useful,
but the text-frame get's the job done.
It would agree though that a dedicated macro in muse score,
which creates a copyright on the bottom of the first page only, would be super handy.
Copyrights can become very long, so I think, it's not convenient
to have them on every page by default. This for example is the copyright for
Cold Heart, the Remix:
Copyright © 2021 UNIVERSAL MUSIC PUBLISHING LTD., COW DOG MUSIC, INC., HST PUBLISHING LTD., CHENFELD LTD.,UNIVERSAL MUSIC PUBLISHING PTY LTD. and BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT (UK) LTD. All Rights for UNIVERSAL MUSIC PUBLISHING LTD.,COW DOG MUSIC, INC. and CHENFELD LTD. in the United States Administered by UNIVERSAL - POLYGRAM INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING,INC. All Rights for HST PUBLISHING LTD. and UNIVERSAL MUSIC PUBLISHING PTY LTD. in the United States Administered by UNIVERSAL - SONGS OF POLYGRAM INTERNATIONAL, INC. All Rights for BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT (UK) LTD.
Administered by BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT (US) LLC All Rights Reserved Used by Permission -
Contains elements of "Sacrifice" and "Rocket Man (I Think It's Gonna Be A Long Long Time)" by Elton John and Bernie Taupin
In reply to I recommend to add a text… by oMrSmith
That's a better solution than to use normal stave text and drag it below the staff indeed. Thank you for sharing!