Associate Dean Daryl Lim speaks at PLI Copyright Law Workshop

CARLISLE—Daryl Lim, H. Laddie Montague Jr. Chair in Law and associate dean for research and strategic partnerships at Penn State Dickinson Law, served as a faculty member for the Practicing Law Institute’s Copyright Law Workshop 2026 on May 27, 2026. The seminar is designed for copyright lawyers with a working knowledge of the field and focuses on practical strategies, recent case law, regulatory developments, and emerging copyright issues involving artificial intelligence.

Lim participated in the program’s “Copyright Law Updates and Recent Developments” session, alongside intellectual property practitioners Ranjini Acharya (Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP), Eleanor M. Lackman (Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP), and Kayvan M. Ghaffari (Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP). The session examined recent agency, statutory, case law, and artificial intelligence (AI)-related developments in copyright law. Lim’s participation reflects his scholarship and teaching at the intersection of copyright, AI, innovation policy, and intellectual property governance.

The Practicing Law Institute is a leading provider of continuing legal education for lawyers and legal professionals. The advanced-level workshop will cover managing copyright complaints, calculating damages in copyright disputes, and recent developments in copyright law.

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.