Associate Dean Daryl Lim to speak on copyright and AI at TechLaw.Fest 2025

CARLISLE, Pa.—Associate Dean Daryl Lim will speak on the panel “Copyright in a Generative Age” at TechLaw.Fest 2025, Asia’s premier conference on law and technology. Held in Singapore, the event is celebrating its 10th anniversary and will convene more than 2,000 participants from over 40 countries, including judges, policymakers, practitioners, academics, and industry leaders.

Lim will examine the legal implications of generative artificial intelligence (AI). He will focus on recent U.S. litigation and the evolving administrative guidance, connecting these developments to his ongoing scholarship in AI, copyright, and comparative law. His participation will also inform the perspectives he shares with students in his intellectual property and technology law courses at Penn State Dickinson Law.

TechLaw.Fest 2025, Asia’s flagship law and technology conference jointly organized by the Singapore Academy of Law and Singapore’s Ministry of Law, marks its milestone 10th anniversary in Singapore. The conference serves as a dynamic platform for professionals from law firms, tech companies, and businesses to connect, network, and exchange ideas, fostering growth within the tech and legal sectors.

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.