ASSOCIATE DEAN DARYL LIM INVITED TO SPEAK AT THE GEORGE MASON LAW REVIEW’S 28TH ANNUAL ANTITRUST SYMPOSIUM
February 2025 — Associate Dean Daryl Lim spoke at the George Mason Law Review’s 28th Annual Antitrust Symposium, where he joined a panel moderated by Ai Deng (Director, Advanced Analytics Lab, Berkeley Research Group; Lecturer, Johns Hopkins University) alongside Mark Gray (Copyright Policy Counsel, OpenAI), Elena Ponte (Attorney, Bureau of Competition, Federal Trade Commission), and Kristian Stout (Director of Innovation Policy, International Center for Law & Economics).
The panel explored key antitrust and intellectual property challenges related to AI, including market power, data access, and fair use. The discussion examined historical tensions between IP and antitrust, the role of AI data licensing and open-source AI, and proposed legal and policy frameworks to balance innovation, competition, and copyright owners' rights.
The symposium also addressed broader competition law issues, including the U.S. Department of Justice’s ad tech antitrust case against Google, its implications for the ad tech ecosystem, and evolving content moderation practices under Section 230 and the EU’s Digital Services Act. Additionally, experts discussed antitrust priorities for a potential Trump administration and the future direction of enforcement agencies.
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.