Friday, November 20, 2026 | Seaborg, Faculty Club, UC Berkeley
Presented by Asia IP & Competition Law Center
Registration information coming soon!
Agenda in progress
The Second Berkeley Global Conference on AI and IP builds upon the success of our inaugural 2025 conference, Intellectual Property and Human Creativity in the AI Age: A Global Conversation. As the second gathering in an annual conference series, it reflects our long-term commitment to sustained global dialogue on how AI and intellectual property can support human creativity. This year’s conference convenes as frontier models, AI agents, emerging world models, and the rapid rise of open-weight AI in China transform creation, invention, knowledge production, and cultural life.
AI offers unprecedented opportunities to expand human creativity. It may also diminish the recognition and economic value of human creation, displace creators in consumer markets, and make creative professions harder to enter, especially for younger and less established people. These outcomes are not predetermined. They will be shaped by the legal and institutional choices we make today—and those choices should not be left to a powerful few.
Bringing together scholars, judges, practitioners, technologists, and creators from different jurisdictions and cultural traditions, the conference will examine human authorship and inventorship, the use of creative works in AI development, licensing and transaction costs, the growing power and responsibility of AI platforms, and the risk that geopolitical competition may produce regulatory arbitrage and a race to the bottom.
Across these inquiries, human dignity provides a guiding principle. As part of a continuing annual undertaking, the conference asks whether different legal traditions can develop a shared framework in which AI serves the flourishing of human intelligence, creativity, and dignity, while creators retain agency, recognition, bargaining power, and a fair share of the value they help produce.
