RCLIP co-hosted an academic roundtable, following-up and further exploring the findings of the US-Asia Comparative Copyright Law Symposium that we hosted on December 13, 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:

• Prof. Tatsuhiro Ueno (Waseda University)

  The ‘Second’TDM Copyright Exception in Japan

• Prof. Matthias Leistner (LMU Munich Faculty of Law)

  Recent Copyright Case Law From the EU on Copyright vs. AI – An Update With Some Background

• Prof. Gideon Parchomovsky (University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School)

  Copyright Law’s Existential Dilemma

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

  Super IP for Super Creativity

  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)

• Assoc. Prof. Qi Jun Kwong (Hokkaido University)

• Prof. Tetsuya Imamura (Meiji University)

• Erik Mangajaya (Deputy Director for Intellectual Property, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Indonesia)

• Prof. Takeshi Maeda (Tokyo University Graduate School of Law)

• 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)

• 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)

• Chaonan Wang (Huawei)

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

• Prof. Henrike Weiden (Munich University of Applied Sciences)

• Ying Xue (Hong Kong University)

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

Moderators:

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

• Prof. Shyamkrishna Balganesh (Columbia Law School)