Book Copyright Page Generator
The copyright page for where you publish, in your book's language, with every line explained.
- 10 countries, 7 languages
- Every line explained
- Copy, Word or text file
Where you, or your publisher, are based: it decides which laws apply to the page. The book's language is separate.
Book and people
Author, illustrator, translator
Leave it empty to use the authors' names. A company only if it owns the rights.
Writing the book too?
Story-AI's book mode writes your book chapter by chapter and puts a copyright page into every export: print PDF, EPUB and Word. Paste this one into its Metadata step.
Start your bookWhat you type stays in this browser: nothing is sent anywhere.
Back of the title page
Copyright © [year] [name]
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored or shared in any form or by any means without written permission from the copyright holder, except for brief quotations in reviews and other uses permitted by copyright law.
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and events are the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to real people, living or dead, or to real events is coincidental.
First edition: [year]
Not legal advice. Each line links the law or institution behind it, checked on 2 November 2026; for your book, your national library, ISBN agency or a lawyer has the last word.
What goes on a book copyright page
Four kinds of line, and only some of them are required.
A book copyright page is the page, usually on the back of the title page, that says who owns the book and how it was published: the © notice, the rights statement, the ISBN, the edition, the publisher and, in some countries, details the law requires in every printed copy.
Most English guides call every line on a book copyright page "required". Few are. In the US the © notice has been optional since 1 March 1989 (Copyright Office, Circular 3), and KDP doesn't require a copyright page at all (KDP Help).
Germany, Austria, France, Spain, Mexico, Brazil and Türkiye do put duties on printed books, though, and those lines are law, not decoration. So the generator above marks each line: switch to Why each line and every line shows its kind, the reason in a sentence and a link to the law or the institution's own page.
The four kinds of line
Required by law
A statute asks for it, usually in printed copies only: the Impressum of a German paperback, the French "Dépôt légal" mention, Spain's depósito legal number, Mexico's "D. R. ©".
Required by what you use
Not law, but the rule of a service you chose. Once you have an ISBN, the ISBN system asks you to print it here; a Japanese ISBN brings the agency's four items; CEDRO's sentence is for its members.
Customary
What books usually print and readers expect: the © line, "All rights reserved", the edition, the credits. No legal effect of its own, which doesn't make it useless.
Optional
Off until you add it: a reservation against AI training, a note on AI tools, an EU product-safety contact, a "Printed in" line, the printer's key.
The usual parts, top to bottom
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Copyright notice
©, or the word "Copyright", the year of first publication and the owner: "Copyright © 2026 Jane Rivers". The year is when the book first came out, not when you wrote or registered it (17 U.S.C. § 401).
- 2
Rights statement
"All rights reserved" and what readers may not do, with room for quotations in reviews. Or a Creative Commons licence, if you want the book shared.
- 3
Disclaimer
Fiction, a memoir with names changed, or "not professional advice" for a how-to book. It says what the book is; it doesn't stop a defamation claim.
- 4
ISBN
One line per format, each after the letters "ISBN": paperback, hardcover, ebook (ISBN Users' Manual).
- 5
Edition
"First edition: November 2026", and in some English books the printer's key, "10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1", whose lowest number is the printing.
- 6
Publisher and contact
Who publishes the book and where, with a website or an email. Self-published, that's your name or an imprint name.
- 7
Credits
Cover design, cover image, editing, proofreading, typesetting, illustrations, translation: customary, and sometimes a condition of an image licence.
How to make a book copyright page in 5 steps
With the generator above, in a few minutes.
- 1
Pick where you publish from
The country where you, or your publisher, are based decides the law, wherever the book is sold. Then the book's language, which the page is written in (English is always offered), and the formats: lines for print only appear when you tick paperback or hardcover.
- 2
Choose the kind of book
Novel, short stories, nonfiction, memoir, children's book, poetry, coloring or low-content book, or translation. It sets the disclaimer, which you can change.
- 3
Fill in the book and its people
Title, authors, illustrator and translator, the copyright holder if it isn't the author, the year of first publication and this edition's date.
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Add the numbers you have
Your ISBNs, whose check digit is tested as you type, and the numbers only an institution gives out: an LCCN, a CIP block, a depósito legal number, a ficha catalográfica. Paste those as they came; the generator never makes one up.
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Copy or download
Read the page as it will print, or switch to Why each line. Then copy the text, download a Word or text file, or copy HTML for an ebook. What you type stays in your browser.
Book copyright page examples
Six made-up books, six pages, straight from the generator.
Each book copyright page below is the generator's own output, built by the same code as the tool when this page loads, so the examples can't drift from it. The caption says which settings made it.
Novel, self-published on KDP (US)
Copyright © 2026 Clara Dunmore
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored or shared in any form or by any means without written permission from the copyright holder, except for brief quotations in reviews and other uses permitted by copyright law.
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and events are the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to real people, living or dead, or to real events is coincidental.
ISBN 979-8-218-45213-1 (paperback)
Cover design: Ivo Marsh
First edition: November 2026
Independently published
www.claradunmore.com
Nonfiction from a small imprint (UK)
Copyright © 2026 Tom Hale
The right of Tom Hale to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored or shared in any form or by any means without written permission from the copyright holder, except for brief quotations in reviews and other uses permitted by copyright law.
This book is for general information only and is not a substitute for professional advice. The author and publisher accept no liability for any loss arising from the use of its contents.
First published in Great Britain in 2026 by Brackenford Press Bristol
www.brackenfordpress.co.uk
ISBN 978-1-7391-2045-0 (paperback)
ISBN 978-1-7391-2046-7 (ebook)
Cover image: Photograph by Ana Ruiz, used under licence
Editing: Mel Carr
Memoir (US)
Copyright © 2026 Rosa Lindqvist
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored or shared in any form or by any means without written permission from the copyright holder, except for brief quotations in reviews and other uses permitted by copyright law.
Lines from "Blue Hour" by June Abara © 2019. Used by permission.
The events in this book are true and told as they are remembered. Some names and identifying details have been changed to protect the privacy of the people involved.
ISBN 978-1-966512-03-5 (paperback)
Editing: Dana Fox
Proofreading: Lee Chu
First edition: May 2026
Published by Rosa Lindqvist
Children's picture book (US)
Text copyright © 2026 Nell Okoro
Illustrations copyright © 2026 Sami Varga
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored or shared in any form or by any means without written permission from the copyright holder, except for brief quotations in reviews and other uses permitted by copyright law.
ISBN 978-1-955874-12-0
First edition: March 2026
Published by Little Lark Press Austin, Texas
Poetry under Creative Commons (another country)
Copyright © 2026 Aoife Brennan
This work is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Typesetting: Niamh Daly
First edition: June 2026
Published by Aoife Brennan
ISBN 978-1-7397840-0-3
Translation (US)
Translation copyright © 2026 David Kerr
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored or shared in any form or by any means without written permission from the copyright holder, except for brief quotations in reviews and other uses permitted by copyright law.
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and events are the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to real people, living or dead, or to real events is coincidental.
ISBN 978-1-964109-27-5 (paperback)
ISBN 978-1-964109-28-2 (ebook)
Original title: Le Verger d’hiver
© Éditions du Pré, 2021
Translated by David Kerr
First edition: October 2026
Published by Northlight Editions New York
The names, books and ISBNs are invented; the ISBNs only pass the check-digit test. For a German Impressum, the French legal mentions or a Japanese 奥付, pick that country in the generator.
Copyright page template you can copy and paste
For the US and the UK, with the gaps in brackets.
Not everyone wants a form. Each book copyright page template here is the generator's output with nothing filled in: replace each bracket, delete the lines you don't need, and paste the result onto the back of your title page. For any other country, use the generator, because the duties differ too much for one template.
US copyright page template
For a novel. For nonfiction, swap the fiction disclaimer for a not-advice one in the generator.
Copyright © [year] [Author Name]
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored or shared in any form or by any means without written permission from the copyright holder, except for brief quotations in reviews and other uses permitted by copyright law.
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and events are the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to real people, living or dead, or to real events is coincidental.
ISBN [ISBN] (paperback)
ISBN [ISBN] (ebook)
Cover design: [Name]
Editing: [Name]
First edition: [year]
Published by [Publisher or imprint] [City, State]
[website]
UK copyright page template
The moral-rights line is customary in British books. The British Library CIP sentence is left out: it's only true once the BL has made a record.
Copyright © [year] [Author Name]
The right of [Author Name] to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored or shared in any form or by any means without written permission from the copyright holder, except for brief quotations in reviews and other uses permitted by copyright law.
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and events are the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to real people, living or dead, or to real events is coincidental.
First published in Great Britain in [year] by [Publisher or imprint] [Town]
[website]
ISBN [ISBN] (paperback)
ISBN [ISBN] (ebook)
Cover design: [Name]
Editing: [Name]
Book copyright page rules by country
What the law asks, where the numbers come from, and the legal deposit.
The country of publication, where you or your publisher are based, decides what a printed book must say. Here is what each of the generator's 10 countries asks, checked against the laws and institutions linked on 2 November 2026.
United States
- On the page
- Nothing is required. The © notice is optional since 1989; if you print one, 17 U.S.C. § 401 sets its form.
- Numbers
- ISBN from Bowker, or a free KDP ISBN for the KDP edition only. An LCCN through the PCN program, before publication.
- Legal deposit
- Two copies to the Copyright Office within three months of publication, enforced on demand (17 U.S.C. § 407).
United Kingdom
- On the page
- Nothing is required. The author's right to be named has to be asserted (CDPA ss. 77–78); the customary line records it.
- Numbers
- ISBN from Nielsen. The British Library's CIP sentence only with a record the BL made.
- Legal deposit
- A copy to the British Library (Legal Deposit Libraries Act 2003).
Germany
- On the page
- Printed books: name and address of the printer, and of the publisher or, self-published, the author (§ 8 LPresseG NRW, Art. 7 BayPrG and the other states' press laws). The states differ in detail: in Berlin the town is enough instead of the full address (eRecht24).
- Numbers
- ISBN from MVB.
- Legal deposit
- Two copies to the German National Library within a week of publication (§ 14 DNBG), plus your state's deposit library.
Austria
- On the page
- Printed works: the media owner and the manufacturer, with the places of publication and manufacture; no address (§ 24 MedienG).
- Numbers
- ISBN from Austria's ISBN agency.
- Legal deposit
- Not covered here: ask the Austrian National Library.
France
Spain
- On the page
- Print books: the depósito legal number, on the same leaf as the ISBN (Ley 23/2011). The 1966 press law, which the BOE doesn't show as repealed, also asks every print for the printer's name and address and the place and year of printing (Ley 14/1966, art. 11); whether it still binds books is unclear.
- Numbers
- ISBN from the Agencia del ISBN; the DL number from your region's legal deposit office (in the Basque Country it starts LG, not DL).
- Legal deposit
- Through the regional office that issues the number. Ebooks get no number; their publisher hands them over when asked (Ley 23/2011, art. 8.2).
Mexico
- On the page
- "D. R. ©" with the rights holder's full name and address and the year, and the publisher's details and the ISBN (LFDA arts. 17 and 53); in print, the printer's (art. 54).
- Numbers
- ISBN from INDAUTOR, Mexico's ISBN agency.
- Legal deposit
- Not covered here: ask Mexico's national library.
Brazil
- On the page
- Title and author, original title and translator, year and publisher on every copy (Lei 9.610, art. 53), plus the ISBN and a ficha catalográfica (Lei 10.753, art. 6).
- Numbers
- ISBN from CBL; the ficha from a librarian registered with a CRB.
- Legal deposit
- Fundação Biblioteca Nacional within 30 days: at least 2 printed copies, and 1 PDF/A file for an ebook; both for a book in both formats (IN FBN 001/2026).
Japan
- On the page
- Nothing since 1949. With a Japanese ISBN, the agency requires the title, the publisher, its contact and the ISBN in the 奥付 (JPO guide).
- Numbers
- Japanese ISBNs (978-4) from the Japan ISBN Agency, for publishers based in Japan only.
- Legal deposit
- One copy to the National Diet Library within 30 days of publication (NDL).
Türkiye
- On the page
- Printed works: place and date of printing, the publisher's and printer's names and business addresses (Basın Kanunu, art. 4), and their certificate numbers (Sertifika Yönetmeliği); an author publishing their own book needs no publisher certificate.
- Numbers
- Certificates from the Ministry of Culture and Tourism; ISBN from its libraries directorate. KDP takes no Turkish books.
- Legal deposit
- Copies under the deposit law (No. 6279), and a bandrol on every copy sold (FSEK art. 81).
For any other country the generator writes the customary lines only. Your national library and ISBN agency know the local rules: many countries have a legal deposit, and some require imprint details in printed books.
ISBN, LCCN and CIP: what goes where
Three numbers, three different issuers.
Only the ISBN is common to every country. The ISBN Users' Manual puts it on the back of the title page, which is the book copyright page, after the letters "ISBN", with each format on its own line: "ISBN 978-… (paperback)", "ISBN 978-… (ebook)".
Since 2007 every ISBN has 13 digits, the last of them a check digit: the generator recomputes it as you type and flags a typo.
The other numbers belong to a library, and only that library can issue them. Print them as they reached you, never one you made up or bought elsewhere.
ISBN
From your country's ISBN agency: Bowker in the US, Nielsen in the UK, MVB in Germany, AFNIL in France, CBL in Brazil. A free KDP ISBN works for the KDP edition only, and KDP then lists the publisher as "Independently published".
LCCN (US)
A Library of Congress Control Number, assigned before publication through the PCN program, which self-publishers can join. It prints as "Library of Congress Control Number: 2026012345".
CIP data block (US)
Cataloging-in-Publication data comes only from the Library of Congress, and its CIP program doesn't take self-publishers. The "P-CIP" blocks some companies sell are not LoC CIP.
British Library CIP (UK)
"A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library" is true only when the British Library made one. One UK generator ticks it by default; ours leaves it off.
Ficha catalográfica (Brazil)
Required by Lei 10.753 next to the ISBN, and made by a librarian whose CRB number goes under it. The generator boxes the record you paste and never writes one.
Depósito legal (Spain)
A number like "DL M 12345-2026" from your region's office, printed on the same leaf as the ISBN (Ley 23/2011). The generator checks its legal form.
Copyright page for KDP books
What Amazon asks for, and what it doesn't.
KDP doesn't require a book copyright page. Its formatting help lists one among optional front matter that, if you include it, always falls on the first left-hand page after the title page, with no page number or header.
The German help is blunter: "Amazon fordert kein Impressum ein", and a page in your file doesn't prove you hold the rights (KDP Hilfe).
Amazon not asking isn't the law not asking. A German author's KDP paperback is still a printed work that appears in Germany, so the press law wants the Impressum: the name and address of the author and of the printer.
KDP prints in several countries and adds its own last page, so there's no settled printer line for a German KDP paperback. The generator offers the two in use and says neither is confirmed.
A free KDP ISBN goes on the page like any ISBN; KDP lists the publisher as "Independently published", and the number can't be used outside KDP. AI use is declared in KDP's publishing flow, not in the book (content guidelines).
For EU product safety, KDP's support has written that nothing needs adding for KDP-printed copies. If you sell print copies in the EU yourself, the GPSR wants a manufacturer contact on the book, and the generator adds one when you ask.
Disclaimers, AI-training reservations and AI notes
What each one does in law, and what it doesn't.
Three kinds of line on a book copyright page are easy to oversell. Here is what each of them actually does.
Disclaimers
"This is a work of fiction…" says what the book is. It doesn't stop a defamation or privacy claim if a real person is recognizable. A memoir's names-changed line is only true if you changed them; a not-advice line suits health, money or legal how-to books.
AI-training reservation, US
"No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner for the purpose of training artificial intelligence technologies or systems" is the line Penguin Random House began printing in 2024. No US statute gives it effect: it records your wish, and readers never agreed to it as a licence term.
AI-training reservation, EU
Here it can matter. The EU lets rights holders reserve their works from text and data mining (Directive 2019/790, Art. 4(3); in Germany § 44b UrhG). For anything online the reservation must be machine-readable, so set it in an ebook's metadata as well as on the page.
Saying you used AI
Voluntary. KDP asks about AI-generated text, images and translations when you publish (KDP). The EU AI Act's Art. 50 labelling duty is for text published to inform the public on matters of public interest, and not for text a person reviewed and is editorially responsible for: a novel isn't caught.
Claims to leave off a book copyright page
Common in templates, wrong in law.
We read 27 English copyright-page guides and generators before building this one. These mistakes came up again and again, and the generator avoids each of them.
Often written
"Every book needs a copyright page."
What's true
No law requires one in the US or the UK, and KDP doesn't either. Some countries do require certain lines in printed books.
Often written
"Use the year you registered the copyright."
What's true
The notice year is the year of first publication (17 U.S.C. § 401).
Often written
"The copyright page registers or protects your copyright."
What's true
Copyright doesn't depend on the page, and registration is a separate step with the copyright office.
Often written
"Add a CIP block."
What's true
Only one the Library of Congress made. Self-publishers aren't eligible, and a paid "P-CIP" isn't one.
Often written
"A no-AI-training clause stops AI training."
What's true
In the US it's a notice. In the EU it reserves text and data mining, and for online copies only in machine-readable form.
Often written
"KDP books must carry GPSR details."
What's true
KDP's support says nothing needs adding for KDP-printed copies.
Often written
"Printed in the United States of America"
What's true
Print on demand prints wherever the order is, and KDP prints in several countries. Leave it out unless you know.
Where the copyright page goes in a book
Behind the title page, except in Japan.
In print, the book copyright page is the back of the title page: the first left-hand page after it, with no page number or running head, the text set small and often toward the foot. That's where KDP's help puts it, and where the ISBN manual wants the ISBN.
Japan does it differently. The 奥付 goes on the last page, a framed block of title, date, edition and printing, the people, the publisher and the ISBN; the Japan ISBN Agency accepts the front of the book too. Pick Japan in the generator and the preview moves to the back.
In an ebook the book copyright page usually follows the title page, though some books move it to the end. The generator's HTML copy is ready to drop into an EPUB section.
From copyright page to finished book
The last page you make, and the first one readers turn past.
If you're still writing, Story-AI's book mode takes a book from idea to chapters, then typesets the print interior and builds the EPUB.
Its Metadata step writes a template copyright page you can edit and puts it into the print PDF, EPUB and Word exports: paste in the book copyright page you made here.
Two more free tools sit beside this one: the KDP cover calculator for the spine and cover size, and the words to pages calculator for the page count. Stuck on the name? Try the book title generator.
Start your bookBook Copyright Page FAQ
Does a book need a copyright page?
Not in the US or the UK, and KDP doesn't require one. The © notice has been optional in the US since 1 March 1989 (Circular 3). Some countries do require certain lines in printed books: Germany's Impressum, France's legal mentions, Spain's depósito legal number.
What should a book copyright page include?
At least the © notice (©, the year of first publication, the owner) and the ISBN if you have one. Usually also a rights statement, a disclaimer, the edition, the publisher and the credits, plus whatever your country requires in print. The generator marks which line is which.
Which year goes in the copyright notice?
The year the book was first published (17 U.S.C. § 401), not the year you wrote it. A reprint keeps that year.
Can I use a pen name on the copyright page?
In the © line, yes: German law, for one, presumes the person named on the book in the usual way is the author, pen names included (§ 10 UrhG). A German Impressum still needs your real name and address, unless the pen name is in your ID; France lets self-publishers use a pen name or a brand as publisher.
Do I need an ISBN for the copyright page?
Not in most countries: a book without an ISBN simply has no ISBN line. The exceptions are Brazil, where the law requires one (Lei 10.753, art. 6), and Mexico, where the publisher must print it (LFDA art. 53). KDP offers a free ISBN for paperbacks and hardcovers, usable on KDP only.
What does KDP require on the copyright page?
Nothing: KDP doesn't require a copyright page. If you have one, its help puts it on the first left-hand page after the title page, without a page number or header. A free KDP ISBN goes on it like any ISBN.
Can a self-publisher use a CIP block?
Not a Library of Congress one: its CIP program doesn't take self-publishers. You can get an LCCN through the PCN program before publication. In the UK, print the British Library's CIP sentence only if the BL made a record.
Do UK books need the moral rights line?
The right to be identified as the author has to be asserted (CDPA 1988, s. 77), in your contract or a signed document. The line on the page records that, and it's customary in British books; the law prescribes no wording.
What does an Impressum in a German book need?
For printed books, the name and address of the printer and of the publisher, or of the author when self-published (each state's press law, e.g. § 8 LPresseG NRW). Austria asks for names and places only (§ 24 MedienG). Pick Germany or Austria in the generator for the German wording.
Does a "no AI training" clause work?
In the US it's a notice with no statute behind it. In the EU it reserves the book from text and data mining (Directive 2019/790, Art. 4(3)), and for online copies it has to be machine-readable too.
Do I have to say I used AI?
Not on the copyright page. KDP asks about AI-generated content when you publish, and the EU AI Act's labelling duty doesn't cover a novel. You can still add a voluntary note in the generator.
Where does the copyright page go?
The book copyright page goes on the back of the title page in most countries, and on the last page in Japan (the 奥付). In an ebook it usually follows the title page.
Sources
- US: 17 U.S.C. § 401, § 407, Copyright Office Circular 3, Library of Congress PCN and CIP.
- UK: CDPA 1988 s. 77 and s. 78, Legal Deposit Libraries Act 2003.
- Germany and Austria: § 8 LPresseG NRW, Art. 7 BayPrG, § 14 DNBG, § 44b UrhG, eRecht24 on the book Impressum, § 24 MedienG.
- France: BnF, mentions obligatoires and autoédition; Ministère de la Culture, prix du livre.
- Spain and Mexico: Ley 23/2011, TRLPI art. 146, CEDRO's clause, LFDA.
- Brazil: Lei 9.610, Lei 10.753, CFB Resolução 184/2017, IN FBN 001/2026.
- Japan: Japan ISBN Agency guide 2025, Kotobank, 奥付, NDL legal deposit. Türkiye: Basın Kanunu, FSEK, Sertifika Yönetmeliği.
- Across countries: ISBN Users' Manual, KDP Help on front matter, free ISBNs and AI content, GPSR, ALLi on GPSR, Directive 2019/790, EU AI Act Art. 50.
Checked on 2 November 2026. Not legal advice: for your book, your national library, ISBN agency or a lawyer has the last word.