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IP and Human Creativity in the AI Age: A Global ConversationFriday, November 14, 2025Presented by Asia IP & Competition Law CenterCo-Hosted by Robbins Collection Research Center & UC Berkeley Korea Law Center
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Panel III: Style, Voice and NIL: Protecting Human Persona in the AI Age
ModeratorLaurent Mayali, UC Berkeley Law
SpeakersJyh-An Lee, Chinese University of Hong KongChien-Chih (Jesse) Lu, National Chengchi University (Taiwan)Robert Merges, Asia IP & Competition Law Center, BCLT, UC Berkeley LawDuane Valz, Valz LegalPeter Yu, Texas A&M
This conference—sharing the same title as our Berkeley course, IP and Human Creativity in the AI Age, launched in 2023—brings together leading scholars, practitioners, and judges from the United States, China (including mainland and Hong Kong), Japan, Korea, Singapore, Germany, the United Kingdom, and beyond to explore how intellectual property law should respond to the paradigm-shifting challenges of artificial intelligence.
What distinguishes this gathering is its human-creativity-centered lens: we will ask not only how AI challenges existing doctrines—such as inventorship, nonobviousness, disclosure, authorship, and fair use—but also how IP can be recalibrated to ensure that this **formidable machine—an unprecedentedly powerful double-edged sword, with equally profound potential to enhance or to displace human creativity—**is ultimately deployed in ways that strengthen, rather than undermine, the human creative spirit.
Hopefully, this conference can also offer a window into the convergence (or divergence) of common-law and civil-law traditions in addressing historical technological shifts, drawing inspiration from both comparative law and classroom dialogue. In this way, the event continues the intellectual journey begun with our Berkeley course in 2023, while fostering global conversations that cross disciplines, jurisdictions, and legal traditions.