Associate Dean Daryl Lim interviewed on generative AI, copyright, and antitrust

CARLISLE, Pa.—Associate Dean for Research and Strategic Partnerships Daryl Lim was recently featured in a TechReg Talks interview discussing how generative artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping the relationship between copyright and antitrust law. The interview examined why AI training at industrial scale is forcing two traditionally distinct legal regimes to collide.

In the interview, Lim explained that generative AI’s reliance on vast data repositories raises novel copyright questions while simultaneously concentrating market power among a small number of vertically integrated firms. He cautioned against using antitrust law as a substitute for unresolved copyright disputes, emphasizing that antitrust intervention should focus on demonstrable exclusionary conduct rather than scale alone. The discussion reflected Lim’s broader scholarly work at the intersection of intellectual property, competition law, and emerging technologies, themes that also inform his teaching and institutional leadership in AI-related research initiatives.

The interview was conducted by Samuel Sadden, editor-in-chief of Competition Policy International, as part of its TechReg Talks series. TechReg Talks features conversations with scholars, policymakers, and industry leaders on regulatory challenges posed by emerging technologies, with a global audience spanning law, economics, and public policy.

Daryl Lim is the H. Laddie Montague Jr. Chair in Law at Penn State Dickinson Law. He is also the Associate Dean for Research & Strategic Partnerships 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.