Associate Dean Lim to moderate AI panel at UC Berkeley

CARLISLE, Pa.—H. Laddie Montague Jr. Chair in Law and Associate Dean for Research and Strategic Partnerships Daryl Lim will moderate a distinguished panel on “Copyright Infringement and the Fair Use Defense” at UC Berkeley’s conference IP and Human Creativity in the AI Age: A Global Conversation on November 14, 2025. The panel will examine how courts and policymakers across jurisdictions are addressing the emerging challenges of generative artificial intelligence (AI). Lim noted that “as generative AI reshapes creative and legal landscapes across borders, it is essential that we learn from one another to ensure our intellectual property systems continue to protect and elevate human creativity. The goal is not to resist AI but to shape it so that it empowers us.”

The conference brings together leading experts from the United States, Europe, Korea, and China, including speakers from Google and Anthropic, to discuss foundational copyright questions raised by AI training and outputs, early judicial rulings, and emerging regulatory models. Lim will guide a comparative discussion on fair use, territoriality, collective licensing, and technical realities of machine learning, issues central to his scholarship on polycentric AI governance and to Dickinson Law’s innovative curriculum connecting technology and law.

The Berkeley conference convenes leading scholars, judges, and policymakers to examine how intellectual property systems should adapt to the transformative impact of AI on human creativity. The program will feature leading voices in global AI and IP governance, including senior scholars from Stanford, Duke, UC Berkeley, and LMU Munich, officials from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, judiciary from the IP Division of the Seoul High Court, and AI industry counsel from Google and Anthropic. Penn State Dickinson Law’s presence on the program underscores the school’s global leadership in AI and IP law, as well as its role in fostering comparative and cross-border policy conversations.

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.