Hi guys! I’ve checked all over, and scoured through youtube videos. How do I adjust the copyright footer to drag it lower? I’ve tried my best to find a solution, and even adjusted the page margins, but it doesn’t work. Please help! Thank you so much!
Engrave Mode > Double Click the « First » page template. If the Copyright Frame is already at the bottom (stuck to the margin), then you must move up your music frame (the blue one).
But your screenshot suggests that you manually moved the last system downward, since it appears to go below the blue frame, which it can’t do on its own. In that case, you should remove the manual spacing, because your Copyright Frame can’t go lower than the page margin.
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The copyright is just a text frame and behaves like any other text frame.
Ideally, you change its position in the page template as that would avoid a page override. Presumably this is on the first page and using the first page template. In Engrave mode double click on the page template labeled “First”. Then click on the text frame to select it. You can then drag or resize it. Make sure you apply the change to both left and right pages.
If you must do it as an override, you would select the Frames option in left toolbar in Engrave mode:
Then you can interact with the frame just as you would in the template.
This is covered in this older video. The term Master Page is no longer used and is now called Page Template.
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Thank you for your speedy reply!
Is it possible that I can just move the copyright footer manually? I followed the steps, but it doesn’t exactly work.
I also adjusted the page margins too. Ideally i’d like to move the copyright lower, as there is a bit of space at the bottom of the page. It’s only for the first page, and is on an orchestral layout hence space is tight.
This line is the margin, no frame can go lower.
You need either to change your rastral size to smaller staves, or to change your top/bottom margins to a smaller value.
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I see, Ok I will try again. Thank you! ◡̈
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To keep the music above the copyright, you can either move the bottom of the music frame on the First page template up a bit, or increase your bottom music frame margins for the First template or the whole layout.
For reliable printing results, I wouldn’t encroach too much on those margins…!
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Since copyright cannot be lowered, I suggest you raise the bottom music margin a bit 
(layout options>Page setup>music margins)
Ninja’d by Lillie (follow her advice!!!)
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The way to get a frame below the bottom page margin is to have all four Constraint padlocks on, set the Bottom property of the frame to zero, and set the Top property to a value greater than the distance between the top and bottom page margins, causing the top of the frame to be below the bottom:
Note that with all four Constraint padlocks on, strange things will happen if the Page Size is changed.
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This is Black Magic. Such use of the Dark Arts should not be allowed 
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Here is some more Black Magic. Assuming that all page margins are the same, if a page template is edited by adding a graphics frame with all four Constraint padlocks on, the Left and Right properties set to the page width minus the page margin, and the Top and Bottom properties set to the page height minus the page margin, then the graphics frame will extend beyond the margins to cover the entire page:
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So, practically speaking, the top border becomes the bottom border, the left border becomes the right border, and vice versa. This is craaaaaaazy
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This works even with different margins.
Left = page width - left margin
Right = page width - right margin
Top = page height - top margin
Bottom = page height - bottom margin
This will make some people very happy, since there have been a number of requests for the ability to place a full-page graphic on a title page.
However, this method relies on behavior which is undocumented and likely unintended, and therefore it’s possible that it will break in a future version.
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I enjoy showing how Dorico can do something with a workaround when others say it can’t be done. 
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I’d say it’s your specialty. You’re the master of these specific things (and probably many others) and I do appreciate how you share this knowledge here 
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The question then arises as to whether your printer will work that close to the edge of the paper.
David
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Thank you for this! I am updating my sheet music PDFs because this was something that frustrated me that I couldn’t figure out the best way to get the images all the way to the edges in Dorico!
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