ASSOCIATE DEAN DARYL LIM DARYL LIM DISCUSSES THE FUTURE OF CREATIVITY IN THE AGE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ON BEFM’S “MORNING WAVE IN BUSAN”
May 2025 — Associate Dean Daryl Lim joined South Korean radio station BeFM’s flagship show, Morning Wave in Busan, for a live interview in a segment titled “AI Copyright Clash: Who Owns the Creative Future.” The interview explored the rapidly evolving intersection of artificial intelligence and copyright law. Associate Dean Lim explained the mechanics of how AI models are trained using massive datasets that often include copyrighted works, such as books, songs, and digital art.
“If creators aren’t fairly compensated or credited, we risk devaluing human creativity. Musicians, writers, photographers, especially those from marginalized communities, could be pushed out of markets dominated by AI-generated content.” Professor Lim noted during the interview. “There’s also the risk of homogenization. If everyone uses similar models trained on the same data, we may see less originality and diversity in artistic expression. At stake is not just money or copyright. It’s the foundation of culture, creativity, and who gets to participate in shaping the future.”
The interview was broadcast live in Busan and streamed internationally on YouTube.
Daryl Lim is the H. Laddie Montague Jr. Chair in Law at Penn State Dickinson Law. He is also the Associate Dean for Research and Innovation and Founding Director of the Intellectual Property (IP) Law and Innovation Initiative. At the university level, he is a co-hire at the Institute of Computational and Data Sciences and an affiliate at the Center for Socially Responsible Artificial Intelligence.
Professor Lim is an award-winning author, observer, and commentator on national and global trends in IP and competition policy and how they influence and are influenced by law, technology, economics, and politics. He helps policymakers, attorneys, corporate counsel, scholars, and the public understand the world around them. He is a founding member of the Global IP Alliance and its local chapters in Pennsylvania and Illinois. In addition, he serves as Co-Chair of the University Education Committee in the US IP Alliance.
In December 2022, the American Law Institute elected Professor Lim to its membership based on demonstrated excellence and outstanding professional achievement. In 2023, the US Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission recognized him as “a leading expert in antitrust law and economics” and the IAM Strategy 300, a guide to the industry pioneers with “exceptional skill sets, as well as profound insights into the development, creation, and management of IP value,” named him to its World’s Leading IP Strategists 2023 list. In 2024, he was appointed to the consultative group advising the United Nations Secretary General’s High-Level Advisory Body on Artificial Intelligence. In 2025, he received the IP Professor of the Year Award at the Global Intellectual Property, Artificial Intelligence & Technology Conclave & Awards.