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How can I add on my thesis a page that has a restriction notice just after the cover page?

There is a similar question but for adding copyrighting stuff on the footnote. I don't want to have a footnote in every page.

I just want only the second page of the pdf document to be dedicated to that, which will say: "This thesis includes confidential material and should not be copied bla bla bla…"

Thank you.

Spyros
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    Whats the problem with simply typing the desired text on the page?! Please be more concrete what your problem is an add a minimal working example (MWE)! – Tobi Nov 28 '13 at 17:20
  • Thank you very much. I actually thought that I had to use a command like \chapter \section etc.

    I just wrote before the first chapter just by adding a new page (\newpage) and it worked well.

     – Spyros Nov 28 '13 at 17:51
  • If my answer provides a solution to your problem, it would be nice if you accept it (by clicking the check mark below the voting arrows) :-) … – Tobi Nov 29 '13 at 11:44

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You can simply add text right after the title page, there's no need for special commands …

\documentclass{book}

% just to have smaller pages:
\usepackage[papersize={10cm,14cm}]{geometry}

\begin{document}
% Titlepage
\title{My Book}
\author{I}
\maketitle

% copyright note
Don't steel my thoughts!

% First chapter (or TOC ...)
\chapter*{Preface}
This book is about how to wirte copyright notes
right after a title page \dots

% etc.  ...
\end{document}

which will give a copyright page like this:

first attempt of a copyright page

Note that theres no need for manual page breaking since \maketitle starts a new page after setting up the title page and \chapter start a new page by itself, too.

Now it’s time for some improvements:

  • add some more information, like \copyright\,2013, by me
  • remove the page number with \thispagestyle{empty}
  • the effects of the following commands should be restricted to the copyright page by adding a group, i.e. a pair of curly braces { ... }
  • shift the information a bit lower with \vspace*{4cm} or to the bottom of the page with \vspace*{\fill} (the asterisk * in the command name is necessary, because without it the space will be ignored at the beginning of a page)
  • set the indent to zero with \setlength{\parindent}{0pt}
  • set some space between paragraphs with \setlength{\parskip}{\baselinskip} (with that setting there will be an empty line between the paragraphs)
  • make the font smaller with \footnotesize and maybe italic with \itshape

Then we have the improved code

\documentclass{book}

% just to have smaller pages:
\usepackage[papersize={10cm,14cm}]{geometry}

\begin{document}
% Titlepage
\title{My Book}
\author{I}
\maketitle

% copyright note
{% begin group
   \vspace*{65mm}
   \thispagestyle{empty}
   \footnotesize\itshape
   \setlength{\parskip}{\baselineskip}
   \setlength{\parindent}{0pt}
   \copyright\,2013, by me

   Don't steel my thoughts!
}% end group

% First chapter (or TOC ...)
\chapter*{Preface}
This book is about how to wirte copyright notes
right after a title page \dots

% etc.  ...
\end{document}

resulting in a page like this:

improved copyright page

Tobi
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