Associate Dean Daryl Lim quoted by PYMNTS on AI training

CARLISLE—Daryl Lim, H. Laddie Montague Jr. Chair in Law and associate dean for research and strategic partnerships at Penn State Dickinson Law, was quoted by PYMNTS in a July 1, 2026, article titled “Courts Split on Whether AI Training Is Fair Use.” The article, which you can read by clicking here, examines the emerging divide among courts, regulators, technology companies, and publishers over whether AI training should be governed primarily through input transparency rules, output-based regulation, or copyright liability.

Lim explained that only a small number of firms can train frontier AI models at scale because those firms often control the compute, data, cloud infrastructure, and distribution channels needed to build and deploy advanced systems. His comments connect directly to his scholarship and teaching on AI governance, antitrust, copyright, and platform power, highlighting how copyright questions about training data also raise broader structural concerns about concentration in generative AI markets.

PYMNTS is a digital media and research platform covering payments, financial technology, digital transformation, regulation, artificial intelligence, and the digital economy. The article discusses recent developments in U.S. fair use litigation, California and EU training-data disclosure rules, Colorado’s outcome-focused AI legislation, and Google’s recent AI governance paper advocating regulation focused on AI outputs rather than training inputs. Lim’s contribution situates the copyright debate within the broader market structure of frontier AI development.

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.