The appropriate copyright clearance code notice is to appear at the bottom of the first page of each paper according to the guidelines set forth in the Cataloging/Copyright Instructions for an IEEE Conference Proceeding. The copyright notice should appear about 1 cm below the left column, and should be aligned to the left with the same left margin as the column.
The copyright notice to be added depends on the circumstances as follows:
- For papers in which all authors are employed by the US government, the copyright notice is
U.S. Government work not protected by U.S. copyright
- For papers in which all authors are employed by a Crown government (UK, Canada, and Australia), the copyright notice is
978-1-5386-5541-2/18/$31.00 ©2018 Crown
- For papers in which all authors are employed by the European Union, the copyright notice is
978-1-5386-5541-2/18/$31.00 ©2018 European Union
- For all other papers the copyright notice is
978-1-5386-5541-2/18/$31.00 ©2018 IEEE
Tips for adding the IEEE copyright notice to your pdf:
- You may want to first prepare your pdf, and then add the IEEE copyright notice separately using a pdf editing program. You can then re-print the document in pdf format and then validate it using IEEE PDF eXpress.
- If you are preparing your paper in LaTeX and you are using the IEEEtran document class, this may help:
- Add the following code before the \maketitle command:
\IEEEoverridecommandlockouts
\IEEEpubid{\makebox[\columnwidth]{978-1-5386-5541-2/18/\$31.00~\copyright2018 IEEE \hfill} \hspace{\columnsep}\makebox[\columnwidth]{ }} - Add the following code after the \maketitle command:
\IEEEpubidadjcol - Make sure you use the appropriate IEEE copyright notice string, as explained above.
- Add the following code before the \maketitle command: