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Second Annual US-Asia Comparative Copyright Law Symposium (RCLIP 20th Anniversary)

The 20th Anniversary of the foundation of RCLIP

Second Annual US-Asia Comparative Copyright Law Symposium

We hosted the Second Annual Annual US-Asia Comparative Copyright Law Roundtable, which brought together judges, top government officials, and industry leaders from tech and content sectors and explored the deepening intersections between copyright law and AI. Thank you very much for attending and contributing!


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

Supported by JSPS KAKENHI No. JP24H00131: "AI and IPR : Research on IPR System without Scarcity" 



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)

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