% support for copyright footnotes 
\def\@copyrightfntext{}
\def\copyrightfn#1{\def\@copyrightfntext{#1}}
\def\@internalcopyrightfn{\footnotetext{\@copyrightfntext}}
\def\nocopyrightfn{\def\@internalcopyrightfn{}}

% default copyright for EAMT 2024
% May be changed if not appropriate (Canada, UK)
\def\@copyrightfntext{\copyright\, 2025 %
The authors. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons 4.0 licence, no derivative works, attribution,
CC-BY-ND.}

% default maketitle for EAMT 2022. This will overwrite the mtsummit.sty maketitle.
% Mostly taken from deproc.
\AtBeginDocument{
    \def\maketitle{\par
     \begingroup
       \def\thefootnote{\fnsymbol{footnote}}
       \twocolumn[\@maketitle] \@thanks
       \@internalcopyrightfn
     \endgroup
     \setcounter{footnote}{0}
     \let\maketitle\relax \let\@maketitle\relax
     \gdef\@thanks{}\gdef\@author{}\gdef\@title{}\let\thanks\relax}
    \def\@maketitle{\vbox to \titlebox{\hsize\textwidth
     \linewidth\hsize \vskip 0.125in minus 0.125in \centering
     {\Large\bf \@title \par} \vskip 0.2in plus 1fil minus 0.1in
     {\def\and{\unskip\enspace{\rm and}\enspace}%
      \def\And{\end{tabular}\hss \egroup \hskip 1in plus 2fil 
               \hbox to 0pt\bgroup\hss \begin{tabular}[t]{c}\bf}%
      \def\AND{\end{tabular}\hss\egroup \hfil\hfil\egroup
              \vskip 0.25in plus 1fil minus 0.125in
               \hbox to \linewidth\bgroup\large \hfil\hfil
                 \hbox to 0pt\bgroup\hss \begin{tabular}[t]{c}\bf}
      \hbox to \linewidth\bgroup\large \hfil\hfil
        \hbox to 0pt\bgroup\hss 
    	\outauthor
       \hss\egroup
        \hfil\hfil\egroup}
      \vskip 0.3in plus 2fil minus 0.1in
    }}
}

% COLING 2008 v4.1 (Roger Evans, 20 June 2008):
%   improvement to copyright footnote handling in Word template
%   (no substantive change to LaTeX style file)
\footnotesep 6.65pt %
\skip\footins 9pt plus 4pt minus 2pt
\def\footnoterule{\kern-3pt \hrule width 5pc \kern 2.6pt }
\setcounter{footnote}{0}

\renewcommand{\@makefntext}[1]%
  {\noindent\makebox{\@makefnmark}#1}