Associate Dean Daryl Lim speaks on AI to Global Media Industry at EXNW 2025

July 2025—Associate Dean Daryl Lim spoke at EXNW 2025 in Vancouver, Canada, in a featured session titled “AI, Law, and the Future of Global Film, TV and Media” alongside Canadian Member of Parliament Taleeb Noormohamed, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Innovation.

The session explored the legal, ethical, and policy challenges posed by generative artificial intelligence (AI) in global media, including issues of authorship, copyright, and cultural sovereignty. His remarks contributed to transnational conversations at the intersection of law, technology, and creative industries.

The session reflected his ongoing scholarship on AI regulation and his commitment to public disclosure on emerging technologies. His analysis addressed the international dimensions of copyright, the governance of deepfakes, and the role of cultural sovereignty in digital content regulation. The session informed ongoing legislative and policy debates in Canada and beyond.

EXNW (East by Northwest) is a prominent international conference that brings together leaders from government, technology, and the arts to highlight, elevate, and empower the next generation of creatives across film, TV, streaming, gaming, and animation. It is where the creative world comes together to catalyze the development of original content and thoughtful storytelling while cultivating an inclusive and equitable future in media and entertainment.

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.