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The 20th Anniversary of the foundation of RCLIP

Second Annual US-Asia Comparative Copyright Law Symposium

The Second Annual Annual US-Asia Comparative Copyright Law Roundtable brought together judges, top government officials, and industry leaders from tech and content sectors and explored the deepening intersections between copyright law and AI.


Date: December 14, 2024 (Saturday) 10:00 am - 6:30 pm

Location: Masaru Ibuka Auditorium, International Conference Center, Waseda University

Languages: Japanese & English (simultaneous translation)


Hosting Institutions: RCLIP, Waseda University School of Law, Columbia Law School, Kernochan Center for Law, Media and the Arts, Hong Kong University Program on Artificial Intelligence and the Law, and the Hong Kong Global Technology and Law Academy


Panel 1 : Judiciary Panel on the Emergence of AI and Intellectual Property / Copyright Law

Moderators: Prof. Jane Ginsburg (Columbia Law School) & Prof. Ichiro Nakayama (Hokkaido University)

Panelists:

  • Judge Qin Yuanming (Supreme Peoples Court of China)

  • Judge Margaret McKeown (United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit)

  • Judge Motoyuki Nakashima (Tokyo District Court)

  • Judge Bowon Kwon (Intellectual Property High Court of Korea)


Panel 2 : Policymaker Dialogue: Updates from the US and the Japanese Governments

Moderator: Prof. Tatsuhiro Ueno (Waseda University)

Panelists:

  • Shira Perlmutter (Director, US Copyright Office)

  • Hirohiko Nakahara (Director General, Agency for Cultural Affairs of Japan)


Panel 3 : Stakeholders Dialogue

Moderator: Prof. Shyamkrishna Balganesh (Columbia Law School)

Panelists:

  • Satoshi Takeuchi (Nikkei)

  • Dave Kumar (Meta)

  • Yi Wang (Alibaba Cloud)

  • Shaolin Qiu (Tencent)

  • Naohiro Furukawa (ABEJA)

  • Michael Schlesinger (Motion Pictures Association)


Second Annual US-Asia Comparative Copyright Law Roundtable

Continuing the discussion started during the Symposium the day before, we invited the Saturday speakers from the judiciary, government, and industry to join a select group of IP law academics for an in-depth, unscripted, and really interesting open roundtable dialogue exploring a number of ideas and developments with respect to copyright law in light of the ongoing emergence of AI. See below for further details:


Time: December 15, 2024 (Sunday) 10:00 - 16:30

Location: Waseda University Campus, Building 8, 3F Conference Room

Language: English (no translation)


Hosting Institutions: RCLIP, Waseda University School of Law, Columbia Law School, Kernochan Center for Law, Media and the Arts, Hong Kong University Program on Artificial Intelligence and the Law, and the Hong Kong Global Technology and Law Academy

 

Invited talks: 

  • Rossana Ducato (Aberdeen University)

  • Tianxiang He (City University of Hong Kong)

  • Su-Hua Lee (National Taiwan University)

  • Jack Lerner (UC Irvine)

  • Laina Rafianti (Universitas Padjadjaran)

  • Arul George Scaria (National Law School of India Bangalore)

  • Erik Shaddock (HKU)

  • Haochen Sun (HKU)

  • Yoshiyuki Tamura (Tokyo University)

  • David Tan (NUS)

  • Ming Yang (Peking University)


Invited discussants include: 

  • Shyamkrishna Balganesh (Columbia)

  • Roberto Carapeto (Nagoya University)

  • Jane Ginsburg (Columbia)

  • Jiang Ge (Tsinghua University)

  • Tetsuya Imamura (Meiji University)

  • Dinusha Mendis (Bournemouth University)

  • Ichiro Nakayama (Hokkaido University)

  • Yuko Nishitani (Kyoto University)

  • Christoph Rademacher (Waseda University)

  • Masabumi Suzuki (Waseda University)

  • Tatsuhiro Ueno (Waseda University)

  • Valeria Vegh Weis (Konstanz University)

  • Qiu Ziyan (East China University of Political Science and Law)



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