Why do I not get metadata in my page headers

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I’ve added a Copyright (Artist, …) directive but I do not see it in the output]

By default ChordPro only includes the song title and subtitle in the headers/footers of the PDF output.

You can configure the headers and footers in the config file.

See Page headers and footers.

For example, to get the copyright in the footer on the title pages:

{ "pdf" : {
    "formats" : {
        // The first page of a song has:
        "title" : {
            // Footer with copyright and page number.
            "footer"    : [ "%{copyright}", "", "%{page}" ],
        },
        // The very first page of a songbook has:
        "first" : {
            // Footer with copyright.
            "footer"    : [ "%{copyright}", "", "" ],
        },
     }
} }