Usually the year of first publication. Leave blank to use the current year.
For KDP uploads, many authors leave this as their own imprint or blank.
This becomes the fiction / memoir disclaimer paragraph. Most novels include it; nonfiction often omits it.
Your copyright page
How to use the copyright page you build
Paste options
Manuscript / KDP upload: open your manuscript in your word processor, place the cursor on a fresh page near the front (right after the title page and before the dedication or table of contents), and paste the generated text.
Amazon KDP: when you upload your print and ebook files, the copyright page is part of the manuscript file itself — most authors add it once in the source manuscript and it carries through to both formats.
All rights reserved — a standard warning that no part of the book may be reproduced without permission. This is the conventional self-publishing boilerplate.
Edition — e.g. "First edition," which signals marketing and helps readers and sellers tell versions apart.
ISBN — the number Amazon or your distributor assigns. Leave it off this page until you have a final ISBN, so you don't have to re-export.
Printing locations / cover design — optional lines some indies add. National in most regions; tweak "United States" to your own territory if you like.
Two notes
Your name in the copyright line does not need to match your author pen name — use the name that actually owns the copyright.
On Kindle/KDP, the manuscript's first few pages are rarely displayed in the "Look Inside," and this page is quiet legal front matter — that is normal.
Not legal advice. This generates a conventional self-publishing copyright page from the details you enter. It is boilerplate, not legal counsel — for unusual situations (collaborations, work-for-hire, licensed cover art with special terms), check with a publishing or IP professional.
