Associate Dean Daryl Lim publishes CPI article on AI, copyright, and antitrust

CARLISLE, Pa.—Associate Dean for Research and Strategic Partnerships Daryl Lim published an article, “Copyright, Antitrust, and the Politics of Generative AI,” in the November 2025 issue of the CPI Antitrust Chronicle. The piece examines how generative artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping the longstanding relationship between copyright and antitrust law.

Drawing on his scholarship at the intersection of intellectual property, competition policy, and emerging technologies, Lim argues that generative AI has brought copyright and antitrust into unprecedented proximity, blurring doctrinal boundaries and raising new institutional risks. He advances a framework for recalibrating this interface built on regulatory clarity, compliance-by-design, institutional reform, policy realignment, and empirically grounded enforcement. The article draws on and extends his earlier work with Professor Peter K. Yu and situates recent AI-related litigation and executive branch developments within a broader political-economy analysis of innovation governance. You can find the CPI article link here: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/p... The Lim-Yu article is linked here: https://scholarlycommons.law.emory.edu/elj/vol74/iss4/1/.

Competition Policy International (CPI) is one of the field’s most widely read platforms, reaching more than 35,000 readers in over 150 countries and featuring scholarship from leading academics, practitioners, and policymakers. Lim’s article appears alongside contributions from senior antitrust experts and addresses issues at the center of current legal and policy debates, including fair use, model training litigation, concentrated compute infrastructure, and the growing political pressures on U.S. competition enforcement.

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.