Associate Dean Daryl Lim to discuss AI training and copyright at Berkeley–Tsinghua Conference

CARLISLE, PA—Daryl Lim, H. Laddie Montague Jr. Chair in Law and associate dean for research and strategic partnerships, will participate in the Seventh Berkeley–Tsinghua Conference, “Transnational IP in an Age of AI and Global Competition,” at Tsinghua Law School in Beijing on October 15. Lim will join a U.S.-China comparative panel examining large language model (LLM) training and copyright infringement.

The panel, moderated by Jyh-An Lee of the Chinese University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law, will bring together Lim with Jiang Ge of Tsinghua Law School, Robert Merges of Berkeley Law, and Seagull Song of King & Wood. Their discussion is expected to address the copyright rights implicated by AI training, fair use and other copyright limitations, emerging regulatory challenges for AI platforms, collective licensing for artificial intelligence (AI) training, and whether differing national approaches may create pressure toward regulatory arbitrage. The subject connects directly with Lim’s scholarship on copyright, artificial intelligence, and the governance of emerging technologies.

Launched in 2018, the Berkeley–Tsinghua Transnational IP Conference brings together scholars, judges, practitioners, policymakers, and industry leaders from China, the United States, and other jurisdictions to examine developments in intellectual property law. The conference is organized through the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology, its Asia IP & Competition Law Center, and Tsinghua Law School. The 2026 program addresses transnational IP litigation, standard-essential patents, licensing and commercialization, AI’s challenges to patent law, copyright and AI training, and trade secrets against the broader backdrop of global competition and increasing regulatory fragmentation.

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.