Looking forward to joining folks from the West Coast in person and around the country tuning in for the Practising Law Institute (PLI)’s program on ‘Copyright Law in the Data Era.’

In addition to sharing my thoughts on intermediary liability and the Digital Millennium Copyright, I will be part of a panel discussion with Ranjini Acharya Marta Belcher Kyle Citrynell Eric Goldman Eleanor M. Lackman exploring how copyright law intersects with AI and the metaverse. Hope to see you there!

https://www.pli.edu/programs/F/fundamentals-of-copyright-law-in-the-data-era

Kenneth Min Penn State Dickinson Law Protocol Labs Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP Seiller Waterman LLC Santa Clara University School of Law

#ai #law #data #university #digital #copyright

This week, The American Law Institute celebrated its 100 anniversary in Washington, DC. It continues to play an important role in clarifying and modernizing American law. The meeting brought together judges, academics, practitioners, and representatives from civil society and industry to debate and vote on restatements of copyright, torts, property, children and the law, conflict of laws, and principles of government ethics.

Thank you to ALI and the members who extended a warm welcome. The representation of stakeholders, dedication to a clear, robust, and relevant rule of law, and collegiality of everyone I met left a deep impression. Looking forward to supporting the work of this remarkable and revered American institution in its second centennial.

For more information about the ALI and its centennial celebrations, see: https://www.ali.org/annual-meeting-2023/agenda/

Photos:

Collage #1 (L-R): with ALI Director, Judge Diane Wood (see my interview if Judge Wood here: https://youtu.be/bv0jJbqcUw4); with my colleague Laurel Terry and our fellow ALI members; a tower of cupcakes to celebrate ALI’s centennial; with ALI Treasurer Ivan F. (Medtronic); at lunch with Judge Michael Fitzpatrick (Wisconsin Court of Appeals) and Sarah Konsky (University of Chicago Law School); an exhibit tracing the ALI’s ties with the US Supreme Court. Justices Benjamin Cardozo, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Ketanji Brown Jackson, Owen Roberts, and Harlan Stone were, or are, ALI members.

Collage #2 (L-R): Restatement of the Law, Copyright in session with Judge Diane Wood and Reporter Professor Christopher Sprigman, and Associate Reporters Daniel Gervais, Lydia Loren, Tony Reese, and Molly Van Houweling; with Pamela Samuelson and Elizabeth Rowe; with Margaret Chon and Jessica Silbey.

#law #ethics #property #copyright

Deeply honored to secure the first interview with Hon. Diane Wood as Director of The American Law Institute for Penn State Dickinson Law’s ‘Profiles in Leadership’ series. Judge Wood is the first woman to hold this position at the Institute.
Judge Wood has been on the U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit since 1995, serving as Chief Judge from 2013 to 2020. Judge Wood is also a Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Chicago Law School, where she teaches in the areas of federal civil procedure, antitrust law, and international trade and business.
Before her appointment to the bench, she was the Harold J. and Marion F. Green Professor of International Legal Studies at the University of Chicago Law School, the first woman to hold a named chair at the school. She also served as Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, with responsibility for the Division’s international, appellate, and legal policy matters.

Peter K. Yu (余家明) is Regents Professor of Law and Communication and Director of the Center for Law and Intellectual Property at Texas A&M University. He previously held the Kern Family Chair in Intellectual Property Law at Drake University Law School and was Wenlan Scholar Chair Professor at Zhongnan University of Economics and Law in Wuhan, China. He served as a visiting professor of law at ACT Bocconi – Bocconi University, Hanken School of Economics, Hokkaido University, the University of Haifa, the University of Helsinki, The University of Hong Kong, the University of Strasbourg and Washington and Lee University. He also founded the nationally renowned Intellectual Property & Communications Law Program at Michigan State University, at which he held faculty appointments in law, communication arts and sciences, and Asian studies.

Born and raised in Hong Kong, Professor Yu is a leading expert in international intellectual property and communications law. He also writes and lectures extensively on international trade, international and comparative law, and the transition of the legal systems in China and Hong Kong. A prolific scholar and an award-winning teacher, he is the author or editor of seven books and more than 200 law review articles and book chapters. He is Vice-President and Co-Director of Studies of the American Branch of the International Law Association and has served as the general editor of The WIPO Journal published by the World Intellectual Property Organization – WIPO. He is an elected member of the The American Law Institute.

Professor Yu has spoken at events organized by WIPO, the World Trade Organization, the International Telecommunication Union, the U.N. Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the Chinese, EU and U.S. governments and at leading research institutions from around the world. His lectures and presentations have spanned over 30 countries on six continents. He is a frequent commentator in the national and international media. His publications have appeared in Chinese and English and have been translated into Arabic, French, Hausa, Japanese, Persian, Portuguese, Spanish and Vietnamese. They are available on his website at www.peteryu.com.

I’m delighted to share Professor Yu’s insights on life and leadership.

2:33:– Lessons to be learned from Peter Yu.

5:11:– Inflection points toward success.

9:59:– Casting a wide net.

18:24:– Finding a niche.

21:55:– Collaboration and co-authorship

30:26:– Interdisciplinary work.

36:52:– Building programs and partnerships.

39:51:– Co-founding a world-famous conference.

54:12:– What leadership looks like in programing and scholarship.

59:31:– Mentors and mentees.

1:08:29:– What’s next for Peter Yu?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76iifwq1KpE Penn State Dickinson Law Texas A&M University School of Law

Excellent meetings in Philadelphia this week. Akin Gump IP head Steve Maslowski and Rubén H. Muñoz hosted Dean Danielle Conway and me to lunch. Happy to learn Steve is an ardent supporter of Penn State and paid it forward in numerous ways, including endowing a scholarship to his undergraduate program. A thank you to Rubén for connecting us. Looking forward to deepening our collaboration in the fall and beyond.

Enjoyed a breakfast meeting with Roberte Makowski, one of our IP program advisory board members. Roberte serves as Chief IP Counsel at FMC. I thanked Roberte for speaking to our students about her work at FMC and discussed our plans for the coming year. You might have seen FMC’s towering building amidst Philadelphia’s skyline. Perhaps less well-known is the picturesque neighborhood where the building resides.