Creativity and Copyright in the Shadow of GenAI: Managing and Organizing Creative Content in the Digitalization Frenzy

Call for Papers

Special Issue: Creativity and Copyright in the Shadow of GenAI: Managing and Organizing Creative Content in the Digitalization Frenzy

Journal: Innovation

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group

Manuscript Deadline: 30 September 2026

About the Special Issue

The Innovation journal invites submissions for its Special Issue titled "Creativity and Copyright in the Shadow of GenAI: Managing and Organizing Creative Content in the Digitalization Frenzy."

Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) is transforming how creative content is produced, managed, and distributed across industries. From text and images to music and video, AI-powered tools are reshaping creative processes while simultaneously raising complex questions surrounding copyright, ownership, intellectual property, and organizational innovation.

This Special Issue seeks to advance interdisciplinary research examining the relationship between creativity and copyright in the age of GenAI. It aims to explore how organizations, creators, policymakers, and digital platforms navigate evolving legal frameworks, regulatory uncertainty, and emerging practices surrounding AI-generated content. Contributions are welcomed from management, organization studies, media and communication, sociology, information science, cultural studies, political science, innovation studies, journalism, science and technology studies, and other related disciplines.

Scope and Topics of Interest

Submissions may address, but are not limited to:

• Creativity and innovation in the era of Generative AI

• Copyright management for AI-generated content

• Human–AI collaboration in creative processes

• Copyright practices within and across organizations

• Organizational responses to emerging AI regulations

• Copyright conflicts and technological innovation

• Intellectual property ownership in GenAI environments

• Copyright inequality and access to creative knowledge

• Alternative copyright models and commons-based knowledge sharing

• Digital platforms, journalism, and creative industries

• Open science, research, and AI-generated knowledge

• Methodological approaches to studying copyright and creativity

• Regulatory uncertainty surrounding GenAI

• Management of creative and knowledge-based work in AI environments

Submission Guidelines

• Full manuscript submission deadline: 30 September 2026.

• Manuscripts should align with the Special Issue theme and follow the journal's official author guidelines.

• Papers outside the Special Issue scope may be considered for a regular issue of Innovation.

• Authors are invited to submit an approximately 1,000-word abstract outlining their proposed contribution, empirical material, and methodology by 25 January 2026 for consideration in the optional online Paper Development Workshop.

• The online workshop will be held on 27 February 2026 to provide feedback on early-stage submissions. Participation is optional and not required for manuscript submission.

Special Issue Editors

Konstantin Hondros
Helmut Schmidt University / University of the Armed Forces Hamburg, Germany

Leonhard Dobusch
University of Innsbruck, Austria

Astrid Mager
Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria

Patricia Aufderheide
American University, Washington, USA

Patrick Cohendet
HEC Montréal, Canada

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