On June 10 and June 11, 2023, RCLIP co-hosted the first US-Asia Comparative Copyright Law Roundtable, together with the Kernochan Center for Law, Media and the Arts, Columbia Law School, and the Hong Kong University School of Law. Over the course of two days, we engaged in an in-depth conversation on AI and copyright law.

On June 10, we hosted a public-facing conference featuring keynote remarks from the directors (or former directors) of the copyright offices of Japan, India, Hong Kong, Singapore, and the US, as well of leading scholars, judges, and industry and artist representatives. The conference was attended by over 1,000 people from within and outside Japan, with about 200 persons joining in-person and the remainder joining remotely. The agenda and a photo gallery can be found below. Proceedings of the keynote remarks from Director Perlmutter and Professor Ginsburg were published in the 2023-2024 Annual Intellectual Property Law Handbook (in Japanese).

On June 11, we got together in a much smaller roundtable setting, inviting the conference speakers and other leading academics to engage in an open, direct, and unscripted exchange on how to develop copyright law in order to respond to the challenges that the emerging AI technology pose.