[Tex/LaTex] Copyright disclaimer as a footnote at bottom of first page

Question

I am writing a scientific paper and I am having difficulty adding a "copyright" footer on the first page. I am currently having a paper which looks like this (from howtotex.com):

(Link to template)

I altered it a little bit, so far no problems. However I want to have a little text above the "1template by howtotex.com" which is needed for the journal I am writing for. In this text information like where it was presented and a copyright disclaimer is added. So in between the black line and the "1template from howtotex.com" and without a number in front of it. I have no clue how to do that, any help would be really appreciated!

Answer 1

One way of doing it in the article class (which is used in the template you link to) is by inserting the following lines in your preamble:

\makeatletter
\def\mycopyright#1{%
    \protected@xdef \@thanks {\@thanks \protect \footnotetext [\the \c@footnote ]{#1}}%
    \protected@xdef \@bs@thanks {\@bs@thanks \protect \footnotetext [\the \c@footnote ]{#1}}
}
\makeatother

and then calling the newly defined \mycopyright{...} command just before \thanks{...}, like so

\textsc{Jonathan S. Doe}\mycopyright{Copyright: my mum}%
\thanks{Template by \href{http://www.howtotex.com}{howtoTeX.com}}