PROFESSOR DARYL LIM SPEAKS ON ARTISTS’ RIGHTS AND GLOBAL AI REGULATION AT FORDHAM LAW’S DECENNIAL FELLOWS ROUNDTABLE
April 2025 — Associate Dean Daryl Lim was invited to speak to Fordham University School of Law’s Decennial Fellows as part of their Spring 2025 Roundtable Series. The session explored the intersection of generative artificial intelligence and information law, focusing on the rights of artists and writers in the digital age.
The Decennial Fellows Program, hosted by Fordham’s Center on Law and Information Policy (CLIP), brings together top law students focusing on technology, privacy, cybersecurity, and AI. At the request of several Fellows, this roundtable addressed critical issues such as how global jurisdictions approach AI regulation, what it means to be "original" in the age of machine creativity, and how law can re-engage with creators through compensation, contract, and tort frameworks.
In his remarks, Associate Dean Lim outlined a comparative framework for understanding regulatory approaches across the U.S. (market-driven), EU (rights-driven), and Asia (growth-driven), and emphasized the need to "reskill, remunerate, and re-engage" stakeholders impacted by AI. He also discussed recent developments such as Nightshade, the use of synthetic data, NIL (name, image, likeness) issues, and legal responses to ingestion-based infringement.
“Too often, we start by asking what rights are being violated. But we should be asking broader questions—about value, about voice, about power,” Professor Lim said. “We need to rethink our tools to support creativity and fairness in an AI-driven economy.”
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.