Associate Dean Daryl Lim speaks at Seoul AI Policy Conference

CARLISLE, PA—Daryl Lim, H. Laddie Montague Jr. Chair in Law and associate dean for research and strategic partnerships, will speak at the Seoul AI Policy Conference 2026 on a panel titled “Open Data & Open Models: Promises and Challenges.” The panel will examine how open artificial intelligence (AI) resources can support innovation while raising important questions about copyright, data governance, and responsible deployment.

Lim’s remarks draw from his developing scholarship, “The Hidden Copyright Risk in AI Training.” He argues that debates about AI and copyright often begin too late by focusing on the trained model or its outputs, when many legally significant decisions occur earlier in the dataset lifecycle. His remarks connect copyright doctrine, data provenance, and AI governance by examining how copyrighted works may be sourced, copied, retained, redistributed, and incorporated into later datasets. This work advances Lim’s scholarship at the intersection of intellectual property, AI governance, and innovation policy, and informs his teaching and public engagement on the legal infrastructure needed for trustworthy AI.

The Seoul AI Policy Conference 2026 brings together scholars, policymakers, industry leaders, and civil society experts to address major issues in AI policy and governance. Lim will participate in Panel XII, “Open Data & Open Models: Promises and Challenges,” alongside Bryan H. Choi of the University of Colorado Law School, Madiha Zahrah Choksi of Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science, Hwayoung (Edward) Lee of LG AI Research, and David G. Widder of the University of Texas at Austin. Lim’s central contribution is that open AI should not be framed as “open versus closed” but as openness supported by verifiable provenance so that researchers, firms, and downstream users can responsibly rely on AI datasets and models.

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.