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Associate Professor of Law
Email: dannyfriedmann@gmail.com
AI and Copyright Law
U.S. Copyright Law
U.S. Trademark Law
Transnational IP Survey
Transnational Copyright Law and Neighboring Rights
Transnational Trademark Law and GI’s
Design Law
PhD, Chinese University of Hong Kong
LLM, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands
BBA, Nyenrode Business University, Breukelen, the Netherlands
Dr. Danny Friedmann is associate professor of intellectual property law at Peking University School of Transnational Law in Shenzhen. His monograph is titled “Trademarks and Social Media, Towards Algorithmic Justice” (Edward Elgar Publishing, September 2015). His student-reviewed articles are published with IDEA, and CWIJ, and his article with NYU JIPEL is forthcoming. Peer-reviewed articles are published by Journal of World Intellectual Property (Taylor & Francis), Journal of Intellectual Property Law and Practice (Oxford University Press), GRUR Int., European Intellectual Property Review, Benelux Trade Marks and Design Rights (BMM) Bulletin, Asia Pacific Law Review, International Journal for the Semiotics of Law - Revue internationale de Sémiotique juridique. His book chapter on Google and China was quoted by the Advocate General of the Court of Justice of the European Union in C-131/12 Google Spain in 2013. Dr. Friedmann was visiting professor at Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2024. Danny Friedmann has a PhD in Laws of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Meester in de rechten (LL.M and LL.B) of University of Amsterdam, and a BBA of Nyenrode Business University, Breukelen, the Netherlands.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1212-1427
• Vitivinicultural Law OIV Award 2021
Awarded by the International Organisation of Vine and Wine (OIV) in November 2021, for co-editing and co-authoring ‘Wine Law and Policy: From National Terroirs to a Global Market, Julien Chaisse, Fernando Dias Simões, Danny Friedmann (New York: BRILL, 2020) 807. Book introduction video on YouTube.
• Postgraduate Research Output Award 2013-2014
Research Committee of the Chinese University of Hong Kong
June 2014
– Trademarks and Social Media: Towards Algorithmic Justice (Cheltenham: EDWARD ELGAR PUBLISHING, 2015) 370 pp.
– Wine Law and Policy: From National Terroirs to a Global Market, Julien Chaisse, Fernando Dias Simões, Danny Friedmann (New York: BRILL NIJHOF, 2020) 807.
– Julien Chaisse and Danny Friedmann, Law of The Digital Domain: Trademarks, Domain Names, And The AI Frontier (2024) Intellectual Property Law Review 442-500.
– Creation and Generation Copyright Standards (forthcoming 2024) New York University Journal of Intellectual Property and Entertainment Law.
– Julien Chaisse and Danny Friedmann, Law of The Digital Domain: Trademarks, Domain Names, And The AI Frontier (2024) 64:2 IDEA: The Law Review of the Franklin Pierce Center for Intellectual Property 399-455.
– Abuse of Trademark Law in Greater China, A brief analysis of the People’s Republic of China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan (Spring 2017) 47 California Western International Law Journal 157-192.
– Meritocracy of Intellectual Property Within the Bandwidth of Equality; Calibrating the Engine of Creativity, Commerce and Innovation. International Journal for the Semiotics of Law (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11196-024-10201-8 (2024).
– Geographical Indications in The Era of Climate Change: A Trans-border Solution for a Transnational Challenge (2024) 1 Jus Vini: The Journal of Wine & Spirits Law 49-66.
– Copyright as Affirmative Action for Human Authors, Until The Singularity (12 December 2023) GRUR INTERNATIONAL (Oxford University Press).
– CHEN Jun and Danny Friedmann, Jumping from Mother Monkey to Bored Ape: The Value of NFTs from an Artist’s And Intellectual Property Perspective (online publication 16 September 2022, paper publication 2023) ASIA PACIFIC LAW REVIEW (Taylor & Francis).
– The Rational Construction of a Universal Register for Distinctive Wines and Spirits GIs Against Dilution (December 2021) 25 JOURNAL OF WORLD INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY (Wiley) 106-121.
– Food labels, trademarks and how to prevent the next pandemic (June 2021) 16:6 JOURNAL OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW AND PRACTICE (Oxford University Press 453-454).
– Cornucopia of comparative case law: trade mark law in Asia (February 2021) 16:2 JOURNAL OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW AND PRACTICE (Oxford University Press) 184-186.
– Strict liability for OSPs vindicated in the age of omniscience (July 2019) 14(7) JOURNAL OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW AND PRACTICE (Oxford University Press) 509-510.
– The Accountability of the Trademark (September 2018) 13(9) JOURNAL OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW AND PRACTICE (Oxford University Press) 679.
– In Marks We Trust (July 2018), 13(7) JOURNAL OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW AND PRACTICE (Oxford University Press), 593–594.
– IP Protection of Preventive TCM and Precision Medicine in China, Harnessing Holistic Research from Man to Mankind (March 2018) 37(1) MEDICINE AND LAW (WAML special number) 145-162.
– IP in China Closer to Common Law for the Sake of Uniformity (August 2017), 12(8) JOURNAL OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW AND PRACTICE (Oxford University Press) 621-622.
– The second coming of the public interest into patent law (August 2017), 12(8) JOURNAL OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW AND PRACTICE, (Oxford University Press) 712-713.
– First thoughts on Hong Kong’s new patent system; second thoughts on its further medical use claims (December 2016), 11(12) JOURNAL OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW AND PRACTICE (Oxford University Press) 871-872.
– EU opens door for sound marks: will scent marks follow? (December 2015), 10(12) JOURNAL OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW AND PRACTICE (Oxford University Press) 931-939.
– The bottle is the message: only the distinctive survive as 3-D community mark (January 2015) 10(1) JOURNAL OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW AND PRACTICE (Oxford University Press) 35-42 (co-published with GRUR INT).
– The bottle is the message: only the distinctive survive as 3-D community mark (December 2014) 63 GRUR INT (GERMAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE PROTECTION OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY INTERNATIONAL in cooperation with Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition) 1195 (co-published with JIPLP).
– Sinking the safe harbour with the legal certainty of strict liability in sight (February 2014) 9(2) JOURNAL OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW AND PRACTICE (Oxford University Press) 148-155.
– How to work within China’s IPR enforcement system for trademark and design rights, 2007-1 BENELUX TRADE MARK AND DESIGN (BMM) BULLETIN 8-12.
– Intellectual Property Dimension of the EU-China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment: The EU Approach Against Non-Market-Mediated International Technology Transfer, in The EU-China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment, Towards a Binding Investment Liberalisation, Alexandr Svetlinii and I-Ju Chen, eds. (Springer Cham, December 2024).
– Entry: Copyright Infringement of AI-Generated Output, in Ryan Abbott and Elizabeth Rothman (Eds.) Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of AI and the Law (Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham forthcoming 2024).
– Entries: Trademark Dilution by Blurring, Tarnishment and Free Riding, and Honest Practices in Industrial or Commercial Matters, in Paul Torremans, Irini Stamatoudi, Peter K. Yu, and Bernd Justin (Eds.) Elgar Encyclopedia of Intellectual Property Law (Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham forthcoming 2024).
– WIPO and TRIPs: In Pursuit of Mitigating the Time Lag in Law Reform Concerned with Technological Developments, in ASIF QURESHI (EDS.) LAW REFORMS AROUND THE WORLD: PERSPECTIVES FROM NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL LAW (Routledge, New York 2023) 269-278.
– Revitalizing TRIPs as Global Norm-Setter For Geographical Indications, in JULIEN CHAISSE AND CRISTIÁN RODRÍGUEZ-CHIFFELLE (EDS.) THE ELGAR COMPANION TO WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION, (Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham 2023) 377-396.
– Digital Single Market, First Stop to the Metaverse in KLAUS MATHIS AND AVISHALOM TOR (EDS.) LAW AND ECONOMICS OF THE DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION (Springer Cham 2023) 137-189.
– Innovative Foods with Transparent Labels that Will Have the Next Pandemic for Breakfast (June 28, 2021) in LAW AND ECONOMICS OF THE CORONAVIRUS CRISIS, Klaus Mathis and Avishalom Tor, eds. (Springer, 2022) 315-370.
– Danny Friedmann and Peter Ganea, ‘Introduction’, in Christopher Heath (ed) INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW IN CHINA (2nd Edition, Kluwer Law International, 2021) Chapter 1, 1-11.
– Trade Marks and Related Rights, in Christopher Heath (ed) INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW IN CHINA (2nd Edition, Kluwer Law International, 2021) Chapter 3, 153-291.
– Grafting the Old and New World, Towards a Universal Trademark Register that Cancels Generic IGO Terms, in Julien Chaisse, Fernando Dias Simões and Danny Friedmann (eds) WINE LAW AND POLICY, FROM NATIONAL TERROIRS TO A GLOBAL MARKET (Brill Nijhoff, 2020), 311–345.
– Danny Friedmann, Julien Chaisse and Fernando Dias Simões, An Introduction to Wine Regulation in a Globalized Market: Prospects and Limits of Wine Governance, in Julien Chaisse, Fernando Dias Simões and Danny Friedmann (eds) WINE LAW AND POLICY, FROM NATIONAL TERROIRS TO A GLOBAL MARKET (Brill Nijhoff, 2020), 1-32.
– Oscillating from Safe Harbor to Liability: China’s IP Regulation and Omniscient Intermediaries, in THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF ONLINE INTERMEDIARY LIABILITY (Giancarlo Frosio, ed., Oxford: OUP 2020) 277-294.
– Correcting Information Asymmetry Via Deep Consumer Information; Compelling Companies to Let the Sunshine In, in CONSUMER LAW AND ECONOMICS (Klaus Mathis and Avishalom Tor, eds., Cham, Switzerland: Springer 2020) 151- 176.
– Geographical Indications in the EU, China and Australia, WTO Case Bottling Up Over Prosecco, in SIXTY YEARS OF EUROPEAN INTEGRATION AND GLOBAL POWER SHIFTS, PERCEPTIONS, INTERACTIONS AND LESSONS (Julien Chaisse ed.) Oxford, Hart Publishing, 2019.
– Sacrificing the Patentability Standard of Novelty and Industrial Application on the Altar of Incremental Biotech Innovation in Hong Kong, in BIOTECHNOLOGY IN HONG KONG Volume III (Albert Wai-Kit Chan, ed., U.S.-China IP Institute, December 2017).
– TPP’s Coup de Grâce: How the Trademark System Prevailed as Geographical Indication System, in PARADIGM SHIFT IN INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC LAW RULE-MAKING, TPP AS A NEW MODEL FOR TRADE AGREEMENTS? (Julien Chaisse, Henry Gao, and Chang-fa Lo eds., New York: Springer, Series “Economics, Law, and Institutions in Asia Pacific,” November 2017), 273-291.
– Rise and demise of U.S. social media in China, A touchstone of WTO and BIT regulations, in CHINA’S INFLUENCE ON NON-TRADE CONCERNS IN INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC LAW (Paolo Farah, ed., London: Routledge, September 2016).
– Paradoxes, Google and China - How Censorship Can Harm and Intellectual
Property Can Harness Innovation (July 1, 2011) in GOOGLE AND THE LAW: IT AND THE LAW (Aurelio Lopez-Tarruella, ed., The Hague: TMC Asser, 2012).
Cited by Advocate General of the Court of Justice of the European Union, Niilo Jääskinen, in the Opinion C‑131/12 Google Spain of 25 June 2013.
– With Nina Jørgensen; Enforced Prostitution in International Law through the Prism of the Dutch Temporary Courts-Martial at Batavia, in HISTORICAL ORIGINS OF INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL LAW: Volume 2, (Morten Bergsmo, Cheah Wui Ling and Yi Ping eds., Brussels: Torkel Opsahl Academic EPublisher, 2014) 331-354.
Selected Invited Addresses
‘AI and Copyright Standards,’ U.S. Trade & Investment Policy Toward China in 2025 and Beyond, Symposium - The Future of US-Asia/World Economic Relationships following the 2024 US Presidential Election, University of Washington School of Law and Keio University Law School, Tokyo, December 13, 2024.
'Generating the Spirit of the Sweat of the Brow Theory.’ Panel 3: Copyrightability: AI and Games, 2024 Asian Pacific Copyright Association Annual Conference “The Crossvergence of Asian Copyright Standards?” City University of Hong Kong, November 18, 2024.
'How to Distinguish Between Creation and Generation,’ WIPO Conversation on Intellectual Property And Frontier Technologies, Tenth Session, WIPO, November 6, 2024.
'Sweat of the Brow Rebooted, Thresholds for AI-Generated Content,’ “Global Governance via AI: Exploration and Dialogue,” Renmin University of China, Suzhou campus, Oct 29, 2024.
'Creation and Generation Copyright Standard,’ International seminar on “Innovation, Collaboration and Win-win: Judicial Protection of Intellectual Property Rights under High-level Opening-up,” co-organized by Beijing Intellectual Property Court and International Intellectual Property Research Center of Peking University, Beijing October 18, 2024.
'The e-Road Less Traveled, Generative Search Results and Shadow Banning,’ Comparative AI Law Workshop, PKU STL, Shenzhen, September 28-29, 2024 (in person).
'Creation and Generation Copyright Standards,’ CUHK, July 26, 2024.
'Keynote presentation: ‘Creation and Generation Copyright Standards,’ Global Digital Economy Conference, Beijing, July 3, 2024 (invited in person).
'Creation and Generation Copyright Standards,’ Renmin University School of Law, Beijing, July 1, 2024 (invited in person).
'Hong Kong IP in The Greater Bay Area’, IEEM, Artyzen Grand Lapa Macau, November 8, 2023 (invited online).
'Affirmative Action for Human Authors, Until The Singularity’, 7th Annual Texas A&M Intellectual Property Scholars Roundtable, Texas A&M University School of Law, Forth Worth, Texas, U.S., November 3-4, 2023 (invited in person).
'AI and Copyright Law’, Faculty Enrichment Talk at William S. Boyd School of Law at University of Nevada, Las Vegas, November 1, 2023 (invited in person).
'AI and Copyright Law with Chinese Characteristics or Sweet Spot of Regulation’, at the Asian IP Scholars Roundtable in Seattle, organized by University of Washington and Texas A&M University, October 13-14, 2023.
'15th Annual Intellectual Property Conference, ‘The Dog Who Mistook His Chewy-Toy For a Whiskey Bottle - Jack Daniel's Properties Inc. v VIP Products LLC at the US Supreme Court’ at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, July 29, 2023.
'Key note ‘Trademark Law With Chinese Characteristics’ at the Benelux Office for Intellectual Property (BOIP) in The Hague, the Netherlands on May 2, 2023.
'CLINDS Conference- ‘Digital Platform Governance: Security, Scalability and Sustainability’ online January 10, 2023, The Value of NFTs from an Artist's and Intellectual Property Perspective .
'Law Reforms Around the World Workshop, ‘Reform Mechanisms of WIPO and TRIPs: In Pursuit of Mitigating The Legal Lag’ at PKU STL, November 19, 2022.
'14th Annual Intellectual Property Conference, ‘Digital Single Market, First Stop to the Metaverse: Counterlife of Copyright Protection Wanted‘ at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, July 29, 2022.
'University of Birmingham Law School conference EU-China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment, ‘The EU Approach Against Non-Market-Mediated International Technology Transfer’, Birmingham U.K., July 11, 2022.
IEEM IP Programme 2022: Webinar on 25 Years of TRIPs Agreement, ‘IP and the metaverse with Chinese characteristics' at Artyzen Grand Lapa Macau, April 11, 2022.
Law and Economics of the Digital Transformation, ‘Counterlife of Copyright Protection Wanted for the Metaverse' at the University of Lucerne, Switzerland, April 8, 2022.
STL Workshop, ‘The Value of Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) from an Art and Intellectual Property Perspective’, Shenzhen, November 3, 2021.
'Book Talk: Intellectual Property in China, 2nd Ed.,' at Berkeley Center for Law & Technology, September 23, 2021.
Seminar ‘Prosecco and Two Conflicting Geographical Indications Agreements’, at the Roma Tre University, Rome, Italy (via Zoom), May 3, 2021.
Key Note ‘Intermediary Liability’, at Intellectual Property Rights: Dynamics of Copyright Laws and Emerging Challenges, Department of Management Studies at the Salesian College’s Siliguri Campus, Siliguri, West Bengal, India (via Zoom), August 25, 2020.
Jean Monnet Seminar at the University of Macau entitled ‘The Walled Gardens of Social Media in the Age of The Digital Single Market’ at the University of Macau, May 24, 2019.
'Correcting Information Asymmetry via Deep Consumer Information; Compelling Companies to Let the Sunshine In’ at the 8th Law and Economics Conference: “Consumer Law and Economics” at University of Lucerne, March 30, 2019.Workshop on “Global Governance and Innovation: Law and Science Fiction”, “Walled Gardens in Times of Deep Learning” at the University of Macau on August 22, 2018.
Food Law Conference, ‘Bellicose Coexistence: Italian versus Australian Prosecco in China: GI Protection via sui generis or trademark system’ at CUHK, December 1, 2017.
The Australia/EU FTA: Agribusiness Opportunities and Challenges’ Public Seminar, ‘Clash of the Old and the New World of Wine in China, A Case Study of Competition, Innovation and Prosecco’ (video presentation) at the EU Centre of Global Affairs of the University of Adelaide, October 6, 2017.
Conference on Medical Law, Asian Perspectives on Bioethics, Medical Ethics & Medical Law, ‘TCM, Personalized Medicine and Intellectual Property Law, How to Overcome Obstacles Towards Protection of Old and New Personalized Medicine?’ at University of Macau, October 16-17, 2017.
2017 9th IP Seminar in Hong Kong, presentation on ‘Clash of the Old and the New World of Wine in China, A Case Study of Competition, Innovation and Prosecco’ (Abstract and PowerPoint presentation) at CUHK on August 4-5, 2017
Third International Conference ‘Consumer Policy in a Comparative Perspective: New Challenges in Chinese, European, and International Law’ presentation on ‘Protection of EU Wine via GIs in China: Not Too Sparkling for Innovation, Not Too Clear for Consumers’, at University of Macau on June 29-30, 2017.
Second International Conference ‘Consumer Policy in China: New Trends and Challenges’ presentation on ‘Deep Consumer Information: from Homo Economicus to Homo Ethicus’, at University of Macau on December 6-7, 2016.
Key Note International Guest Speaker on GIs, EU Centre for Global Affairs, University of Adelaide, ‘What’s in a Name? Geographical Indications. How they are handled in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and implications for the EU/Australia FTA?’ October 28, 2016.
3rd Visionary IP Professors Roundtable (CUHK, Singapore Management University and Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition) at NTU, Aug 31- October 1, 2016.
The Trans-Pacific Partnership: A Paradigm Shift in International Trade Regulation?, ‘Protection of New Geographic Indications’, at CUHK, May 16-17, 2016.
2nd Visionary IP Professors Roundtable (CUHK, Singapore Management University and Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition) at CUHK, March 5-6, 2016.
First International Conference on Consumer Policy, presentation on ‘Trade, Investment and IP Rules as Competition Policy toward Consumer Welfare’, at the University of Macau, December 16, 2015.
Conference Managing the Globalization of Sanitation and Water Services, CUHK, Lead discussant, March 23-24, 2015.
INTA Trademark Scholarship Symposium commenter Hong Kong, May 12, 2014.
Keynote: IPRPA Hong Kong, two hour presentation at Special Seminar ‘Algorithmic Justice is coming, Safe Harbour provisions are going,’ March 2014.
The Historical Origins of International Criminal Law, City University of Hong Kong, Presenter, ‘Lessons Learned/Not Learned at Batavia and the Kono Statement’ Hong Kong, March 2, 2014.
IP Academy, Renmin University of China, Asia-Pacific IP Forum, ‘Intellectual Property Systems: Globalization and Localization’, Suzhou, November 2013: Presenter, panellist ‘TRIPS Plus Treaties and Online Enforcement’.
National Chiao Tung University, Institute of Technology Law and Faculty of Law, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Joint-workshop on ‘Technology, Energy and International Economic Law’, September 2012: Presenter, ‘Does Participative Technology Require A Paradigm Change of Trademark Law?’
Maastricht University, the Netherlands, conference on ‘China’s Influence on Non-Trade Concerns on International Economic Law’, presentation on ‘Intellectual Property and Censoring in China: Two Mirror Images of Innovation,’ January 2012.
IP Academy of Singapore, 3rd Global Forum on Intellectual Property, January 2011: Presenter, panelist, ‘Protection of the trademark logo on social media’ and ‘IP Dragon, blogging on intellectual property law in China’.
7th Annual Asia-Pacific IP Forum 2010, September 2010: Presenter, panellist, ‘Social networks and trademarks.’
2nd Annual IPR seminar Managing IPR as Business Asset in China, China IPR SME Helpdesk, European Chamber of Commerce, June 2010: Presenter, ‘IPR Enforcement Process in China’.