About the Journal

Begun in 1953, the Journal of the Copyright Society (formerly known as the Journal of the Copyright Society of the USA, and before that, the Bulletin of the Copyright Society of the USA) is the world’s leading peer-reviewed law review exclusively devoted to the subject of copyright law. For seventy years, the Journal has published landmark articles on copyright law by prominent academics, judges, practitioners, and government officials.

Each issue includes a combination of theoretical and doctrinal articles, notes and summaries of domestic and foreign legislative and administrative developments, book reviews, and news of important court decisions throughout the world. The Journal contains announcements of interest to the copyright field including news, reports, and notices from the Copyright Office.

The Journal also publishes transcripts of key proceedings and key copyright lectures, including the Brace Lecture, held annually each November, and the Meyer Lecture, also held in November.  We also hold a virtual roundtable symposium each spring, starting in 2025 that approaches a topic from a variety of viewpoints. 

The Journal also is proud to make available our historical volumes, spanning over 70 years of copyright history.  The issues in real time document the news of the day, key cases, and articles, and are in invaluable resource for anyone working in copyright.  

The Journal is published four times a year as a print publication as well as (coming soon) the new online Forum.

Editorial Team

We are pleased to have an editorial team made up of industry leaders, practitioners, scholars, and law students.  If you are a student, scholar and/or member of the Copyright Society and would like to be part of our editorial team, please email eic@copyrightsociety.org.

Journal of the Copyright Society (Formerly Bulletin of the Copyright Society,  and Journal of the Copyright Society of the U.S.A.)
	EDITORIAL BOARD
	Editor-in-Chief Elizabeth Townsend Gard
	Peer Review Board for Volume 72
	Brian Frye Wednesday Eden	Brandy Karl Bijou Mgbojikwe	Viva Moffat Zvi Rosen
		Journal Advisory Board
J	Seth I. Appel Graeme Austin Joseph M. Beck Robert Brauneis Brandon Butler Robert W. Clarida Kenneth Crews	Tara Crimin F. Jay Doughtery Jane Ginsburg Benjamin Golant Eric Goldman Elissa D. Hecker Jeffrey Jacobson Edwin Komen	David Nimmer Andrew Pequignot Shira Perlmutter Chris Reed Andrea Rush Silke Von Lewinski Afred Yen Peter Yu
	Copyright Society Law Fellows Editorial Board
	Managing Co- Editors	Kristin Ivey	Holly Haney
	COPYRIGHT SOCIETY OFFICERS
	President Daniel Cooper     Treasurer Eleanor M. Lackman	Vice-President/ President Elect Theo Cheng   Assistant Treasurer Michael Lewis	Secretary/ VP of Governance Theresa M. Weisenberger   Assistant Secretary Julian Waiblinger
	Executive Director Kaitland Kubat
	BOARD OF TRUSTEES
	Jeffrey Cadwell Erica Carter Noel Cook Lindsay Edelstein Rachel Fertig Jenny Goak Jeremy S. Goldman	Jennifer Golinveaux Aleksander Goranin Arthur Levy Eric Mayzel Bijou Mgbojikwe Michael Moore Sam Mosenkis	Richard Pfohl Bill Rosenblatt Laruen Simmonds Joshua Simmons Regan Smith Erika Stallings Sabina Vayner
		Honorary Trustees
	Helen Blue Casey M. Chisic Richard Dannay Maria A. Danzilo Corey Field	Karen Frank Naomi Jane Gray Michael J. Pollack Glenn Pudelka Joseph P. Salvo	Judith M. Saffer Eric J. Schwartz Barry Slotnick Nancy E. Wolff Roger Zissu
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Our Process 

1. Our scholarly articles are peer-reviewed by our editorial team with both general knowledge and specialty and experience in the subject. You may submit an article directly to the Editor-in-Chief. Each article is reviewed by our Peer Review Board and/or our Co-Editor a particular issue. Here is the process if your article is accepted for publication.
2. We reformat and transform your article into Google Docs (no exception) for the editing procuess.
3. The Editor-in-Chief (and if applicable, co-editor(s) for that issue at a detailed level for coherence, support, argument, and structure. You review and make necessary changes, in consultation with the EIC.
4. Concurrently, our Copyright Society student fellows bluebook and review your article. WE DO NOT CITE CHECK. For our purposes, ideally the footnotes are already in bluebook formatting, and we are merely checking them. If you are not familar with bluebooking, just let us know, and our students can help.
5. Once the piece has been peer reviewed and the students have done their magic, and the author has approved the final draft version, we go into production.
6. You will receive a copy of the full issue as a PDF to review your article (and you are welcome to make comments on the other articles). These are formatting changes only. You send back your changes in an email with the page number of issue you have identified.
7. The issue goes up on the website and also is distributed for publication in print form and electronic form on various platforms. You are also free to distribute your individual article and the full issue on your personal, institutional, and other non-commercial websites.

Current Openings for Articles

We are now taking submissions for 2026. The submission period will remain open until the issues are filled.

• General articles (no more than 50 pages in length)
• Special topic articles: the 1976 Copyright Act in Action
• – The Making and Implementation of the 1976 Copyright
• – Making Amendments: The Internationalization of the 1976 Copyright Act
• – The Tech Invasion and the 1976 Copyright Act
• – Disability and the 1976 Copyright Act
• – The Public Domain and the 1976 Copyright Act
• – The Future or Next 50 years of the 1976 Copyright Act

If you are interested in submitting on one of these topics, please contact Elizabeth Townsend Gard with a proposal for an article at eic@copyrightsociety.gov