I want to know if there is a name for this, and how to make one LaTeX.
It's a paragraph, usually on the first page of a research paper, that provides information about the publisher and/or the author(s). It seems to be clearly distinct from adjacent text, perhaps it's even a float.
There is an example of what I mean at the first page of this paper, just above the footnote:
Manuscript created February 25, 2002; revised August 26, 2015. This work was supported by the IEEE. This work is distributed under the L A T E X Project Public License (LPPL) ( http://www.latex-project.org/ ) version 1.3. A copy of the LPPL, version 1.3, is included in the base L A T E X documentation of all distributions of L A T E X released 2003/12/01 or later. The opinions expressed here are entirely that of the author. No warranty is expressed or implied. User assumes all risk
Sorry for being unclear, but I have no idea what search terms to use even.
scrlayer-scrpageorfancyhdror something similar. – Skillmon Sep 05 '17 at 07:57\maketitlewith\makeatother\def\@maketitle{...insert your title page specs here...}\makeatother– Sep 05 '17 at 10:42