Date: December 13, 2025 (Saturday), 1:30 am - 6:00 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

Chair : Christoph Rademacher (Waseda University)

Opening Remaks: Prof. Masahiko Gemma (Vice President, Waseda University)

13:30 - 15:00

Panel 1 : Deepfakes and Intellectual Property Law

Moderators: Prof. Yasuto Komada (Sophia University)

Panelists:

• Prof. Jane Ginsburg (Columbia Law School)

• Prof. Yoshiyuki Tamura (University of Tokyo)

• Prof. Yeyoung Chang (Dokkyo University)

• Prof. Timo Minssen (University of Copenhagen)

15:15 - 16:30

Panel 2 : AI & Copyright Law: Updates from Government and the Bench

Moderator: Prof. Tatsuhiro Ueno (Waseda University)

Panelists:

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

• Judge Young Gi Kim (IP High Court of Korea)

• Hirohiko Nakahara (Secretary General, The Intellectual Property Strategy Headquarters)

16:45 - 18:00

Panel 3 : Stakeholders Dialogue

Moderator: Prof. Shyamkrishna Balganesh (Columbia Law School)

Panelists:

• Yasuko Ambiru (Picture book writer & juvenile book writer)

• Caleb Donaldson (Google)

• Takeshi Toyokawa (The Japan Newspaper Publishers & Editors Association)

• Constance Zhao (Huawei)

Closing Remaks

　Prof. Masabumi Suzuki (Waseda University)

US-Asia Comparative Copyright Roundtable

Sunday, December 14, 2025

Location: Waseda University 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  

Featured Topic Talks:

• 10:00-10:40

Prof. Gideon Parchomovsky (Columbia Law School)

• 10:40-11:20

Prof. Matthias Leistner (LMU Munich Faculty of Law)

• 11:20-12:00

Prof. Weixing SHEN (Tsinghua University School of Law)

• 12:00-12:40

Prof. Haochen Sun (Hong Kong University School of Law)

• 12:40-13:00

Discussion

Invited Discussants:

• Dr. Lucie Antoine (LMU Munich Faculty of Law)

• Assoc. Prof. Sai Banri (Toyohashi University of Technology)

• Dr. Roberto Carapeto (Nagoya University)

• Caleb Donaldson (Google)

• Prof. Jane Ginsburg (Columbia Law School)

• Assoc. Prof. Tianxiang He (City UHK)

• Assoc. Prof. Ge Jiang (Tsinghua University School of Law)

• Judge Young Gi Kim (IP High Court of Korea)

• Prof. Yuko Kimijima (Keio University)

• Prof. Yasuto Komada (Sophia University)

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

• Prof. Timo Minssen (University of Copenhagen)

• Hirohiko Nakahara (Secretary General, The Intellectual Property Strategy Headquarters)

• Prof. Ichiro Nakayama (Hokkaido University Graduate School of Law)

• Prof. Ansgar Ohly (LMU Munich Faculty of Law)

• Dr. Leo Pascault (Waseda University)

• Shaolin Qiu (Tencent)

• Prof. Cristiana Sappa (IÉSEG School of Management)

• Prof. Masabumi Suzuki (Waseda University Faculty of Law)

• Prof. Yoshiyuki Tamura (Tokyo University Graduate School of Law)

• Takeshi Toyokawa (The Japan Newspaper Publishers & Editors Association)

• Assoc. Prof. Jie Wang (Shanghai Jiaotong University)

• Assoc. Prof. Jiyu Zhang (Renmin University)

• Dr. Hongqian Zhou (East China University of Political Science and Law)

Moderators:

• Prof. Christoph Rademacher (Waseda University Faculty of Law)

• Prof. Tatsuhiro Ueno (Waseda University Faculty of Law)