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We want you! We love submissions. This can be an idea for article, a draft, or a fully bluebooked article. We love essays, research, and doctrinal pieces. We love all kind of things, as long as it has copyright at its core. Who can submit? Lawyers, professors (both law and in other disciplines), students (graduate, undergraduate, fellows, postdocs, etc.) and those working in the field that is related to copyright (e.g. artists).

Submit your idea or paper, and we will send it through the peer review process. This varies depending on where we are in the cycle of editing articles. But we do accept year-round.

A couple of things to note:

  1. Kindness: we are a peer-review journal, and so we want the process to be collaborative and fun, and kind.
  2. Deadlines: we are flexible to a point, but we have hard deadlines to get out the issue.
  3. Copyright: you hold the copyright in the work that we published; we get a license to publish it.
  4. Peers will review: this is a peer-review journal, and so peers will be giving you feedback and suggestions (see first point, kindness).

And we would love you to join the Copyright Society and be part of the community. This is not mandatory. But it is encouraged.

Submit an Article

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We accept full articles, pitches for full article, and in progress drafts. You must include, however, an abstract so that we can better work is a good fit. Ideally, articles should be no more than 25,000-40,000 words, including footnotes. Pieces may be shorter as well.

2026 Paper Subjects
We are currently focused on a number of key issues. Please check one of these if you want your paper to be considered for this section. You may check more than one.
You may also submit a general paper not connected to our particular topics of the year.
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The Future of Copyright
If you have chosen as your paper subject “The Future,” please fill in this question. The Future of Copyright, our four issue in 2026, will have a conference, hosted by George Washington. Note: there are strict deadlines for submissions of the final papers and commentataries. Drafts will be due by June 15, with the final paper due August 1. Commentaries will be due September 15. PLEASE SELECT ALL THAT APPLY
Please include the abstract for your article.
You can submit in PDF or Word doc form. Make sure to include you name, contact info (including email) and affiliations on the draft.
Accepted file types: pdf, docx, Max. file size: 30 MB.
Please include a copy of your resume.
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Other Opportunities(Required)
We also have an online forum for breaking news, student work, long-form papers, and other works. Would you like your work to be considered for the Forum? This work is part of our volume for the year and will be available in Westlaw and other legal resource platforms.
The Nature of a Peer Reviewed Journal(Required)
We are a peer-reviewed journal, which means your peers review your work. You will get suggestions, comments, and sometimes required changes. We ask that you submit the work with proper Bluebooking citations. We have a small team of students that help us with review of the citations but we do not cite check your sources.

Are you current a member of the Copyright Society(Required)
While you do not need to be a member to publish with the Journal, we strongly encourage membership to get the most out of the experience.
Have you written for the Journal before?
The Copyright Society's Seton Award goes to the best article by an author under 40 years old.
If your paper is accepted, would you like to be considered for this award?