Associate Dean Daryl Lim speaks on AI and copyright at Copyright Society of Australia panel

CARLISLE, Pa.—On August 12, 2025, Associate Dean for Research and Strategic Partnerships Daryl Lim joined distinguished legal experts for the Copyright Society of Australia’s recent panel, “Productivity—A New Challenge for Copyright,” hosted by Gilbert + Tobin in Sydney and livestreamed globally. The session explored how artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping the balance between productivity gains and the rights of copyright holders.

In his remarks, Lim addressed recent U.S. litigation involving AI training on copyrighted materials, including Kadrey v. Meta and Bartz v. Anthropic. He analyzed courts’ treatment of the fair use factors, implications for cases such as New York Times v. OpenAI, and the role of productivity in these decisions. Lim also discussed the prospects for extended collective licensing and the emerging voluntary licensing market for AI training materials in the United States. His contributions reflected his ongoing scholarship and teaching on the governance of generative AI and its intersection with intellectual property law.

The panel featured leading voices in copyright and AI from Australia, Europe, and the U.S., including The Hon. Justice Stephen Burley of the Federal Court of Australia, Professor Alain Strowel (Université catholique de Louvain), and Professor Rita Matulionyte (Macquarie University). Topics included the traditional balance between creators and technology companies, AI’s impact on copyright policy, global litigation trends, licensing solutions, and potential legislative responses.

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