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Charting AI Creativity: Law, Economics, and Society


This event is co-organized by The University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law, the HKU Programme on Artificial Intelligence and the Law, and the HKU AI & Humanity Lab.


Date: May 28, 2026 (Thursday)

Time: 1:30 pm - 6:00 pm

Venue: Academic Conference Room, 11/F Cheng Yu Tung Tower, The University of Hong Kong


Program

Keynote Speeches (13:30 – 14:50)

Moderator: Christoph Rademacher, Professor of Law, Waseda University

Creativity as Data and the Copyright-Privacy Interface

Xiyin Tang, Professor of Law, University of California, Los Angeles; Herman Phleger Visiting Professor, Stanford University

Artificial Inventorship

Gideon Parchomovsky, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz Chair in Corporate Law, Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Robert G. Fuller Jr. Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania

A Large-scale Comparison of Divergent Creativity in Humans and Large Language Models

Haipeng Shen, Associate Vice-President; Patrick S C Poon Professor in Analytics and Innovation, The University of Hong Kong

 

Panel 1: (14:50 – 15:40)

Moderator: Paolo Guarda, Associate Professor, University of Trento

AI and the Market Dilution Theory of Fair Use

Christopher S. Yoo, Imasogie Professor in Law & Technology, University of Pennsylvania

Super-Creativity: A Structural Solution to the Copyright Singularity

Haochen Sun, Professor of Law, The University of Hong Kong

 

Tea Break (15:40 – 16:10)

Panel 2: (16:10 – 18:00)

Moderator: Brian Tang, Founding Executive Director, Law, Innovation, Technology & Entrepreneurship Lab, The University of Hong Kong

Creative Disruption:  AI and California’s Creative Economy 2022-2025

Patrick Adler, Assistant Professor, The University of Hong Kong 

Better Technology, Worse Motivation: GenAI’s Mediocrity Trap

Jie Gong, Associate Professor, The University of Hong Kong

AI and the Future of Narrative Virtual Reality

Tim Gruenewald, Associate Professor, The University of Hong Kong

AI, Creativity, and Ownership in Game Development

Jiakun Luo, Research Fellow, Zhejiang University


To register, please go to https://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_regform.aspx?guest=Y&UEID=106748.


For inquiries, please contact Ms. Grace Chan at mcgrace@hku.hk / 39174727.

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