RCLIP hosted a public lecture by Prof. Jane Ginsburg, discussing copyright infringement in the context of training generative AI. Please see here for further details and impression.

RCLIP is hosted an evening lecture featuring Dr. Oliver Schön, Presiding Judge at one of the patent divisions of the Munich Regional Court I. Please see here for further information and impressions.

In the context of the 2025 dialogue between the German and the Japanese Ministry of Justice in Tokyo, RCLIP hosted a conference titled “Defending the Rule of Law”, along with the DJJV and other co-hosts. See here for further information and impressions on the conference.

Waseda University Law School has launched a special endowed course supported by the Japanese Society for Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers (JASRAC). As part of this initiative, RCLIP will host public lectures featuring leading international experts. As a kick-off seminar, we hosted a group of European scholars, who presented their work on cutting-edge issues within European copyright law. Please see here for further information and impressions.

RCLIP held a well-attended seminar on AI training and copyright law in collaboration with the AIPPI (International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property). Please see here for further impressions and information.

RCLIP hosted a discussion on recent developments regarding Standard-Essential Patent (SEP) dispute resolution in Europe and China. See here for further details and impressions.

RCLIP co-hosted the 2025 China-Japan IP Law Dialogue on May 25, 2025. Please see here for further details.

RCLIP co-hosted the 14th Annual Waseda-Penn Global Patent Law Conference in Tokyo on May 24, 2025. Please see here for further details.

We really enjoyed co-hosting the 7th IP & Innovation Researchers of Asia (IPIRA) on 4-6 April, 2025. Please see here for the full program and many great pictures!

Thank you for joining us for an engaging Evening Seminar; we very much enjoyed three emerging European IP law scholars sharing fresh insights at the intersection of law & technology. See here for further details:

We hosted the ‘Deepfake and the Law’ stakeholder roundtable, which was supported by the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation and hosted by Waseda University in collaboration with the Centre for Intellectual Property, Policy & Management (CIPPM) at Bournemouth University (England) and University of Aberdeen (Scotland).

We co-hosted the academic roundtable following upon on Saturday’s symposium. See here for further information:

As part of its 20th anniversary, RCLIP co-hosted the Second Annual US-Asia Comparative Copyright Law Symposium, together with Columbia Law School, the Kernochan Center for Law, Media, and the Arts, and Hong Kong University School of Law. Please see here for further information.

Waseda University was glad to host an interesting discussion on on German and Japanese private international law challenges pertaining to digitalization of assets.

RCLIP hosted a small workshop, featuring Weizenbaum Institute reseacher Dr. Lasota, who contextualized open source software from a regulatory perspective in the European Union, in particular the Artificial Intelligence Act and the Cyber Resilience Act.

The Graduate School of Law and RCLIP hosted our annual pubic mock lecture & roundtable discussion, which illustrating the substance and unique study environment of Waseda’s IP LLM program.

We hosted the 13th Annual Waseda-Penn Patent Law Conference on May 24, 2024! Please see further details here!

RCLIP Directors Suzuki, Ueno, and Rademacher participated in a conference hosted by NTPU in Taipei, engaging in a day-long conversation on design law with Taiwanese IP law scholars. See further details here!

This seminar provided timely information on recent developments in UK IP law in the post-Brexit era. See here for more details!

We hosted an evening seminar, highlighting recent developments with respect to copyright protection of AI-generated works under Chinese copyright law. See a report here!

Please see here for a few impressions on the 10th International IP Workshop for Junior Researchers in Japan!

We hosted our annual Waseda-Penn Patent Law Conference 2023! Please see further details here!

Please see here for images of Prof. Rajan’s excellent lecture!

Professor Dinusha Mendis gave an interesting lecture on copyright law in the context of the metaverse. See here for further details.

On June 10 and June 11, we convened the first US-Asia Comparative Copyright Law Roundtable, co-hosted by RCLIP, Waseda University School of Law, the Kernochan Center for Law, Media and the Arts, Columbia University Law School, and the Hong Kong University School of Law. Please see here for impressions and a more detailed report!