Jyh-An Lee
Visiting Professor of Law
Professor Jyh-An Lee is an expert in intellectual property law, law and technology, and Asian law. His works have been cited by the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, the UK High Court of Justice, the US International Trade Commission, and the European Union (in a recent WTO dispute settlement case). He has been featured on ABC News, BBC News, Bloomberg News, Financial Times, Fortune, and South China Morning Post as an expert on intellectual property and Internet law.
Professor Lee is a Professor and the founding Executive Director of the Centre for Legal Innovation and Digital Society (CLINDS) at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) Faculty of Law. He was the LLB Program Director and Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Studies at CUHK Faculty of Law from 2019 to 2021.
- Areas of Expertise
- Intellectual Property Law
- International and Comparative Intellectual Property Law
- Law and Technology
- Internet Law
- Asian Law
- Publications
Books
- Web3 Governance: Law and Policy (Joseph Lee and Jyh-An Lee eds.) (forthcoming, Routledge 2024)
- ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY (Jyh-An Lee, Reto Hilty, and Kung-Chung Liu eds., Oxford University Press, 2021)
- INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW IN CHINA (Wolters Kluwer, 2nd ed. 2021) (with Peter Ganea, Danny Friedmann, and Douglas Clark, edited by Christopher Heath)
- NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS AND THE INTELLECTUAL COMMONS (Edward Elgar, 2012)
Journal Papers
- A Tale of Two Fashion Nations, 47 COLUMBIA JOURNAL OF LAW & THE ARTS (forthcoming 2024) (with Jingwen Liu)
- Unwinding NFTs in the Shadow of IP Law, 61 AMERICAN BUSINESS LAW JOURNAL 31 (2024) (with Runhua Wang and Jingwen Liu)
- Legal Implications of Self-presence in the Metaverse, 25 MEDIA & ARTS LAW REVIEW 267 (2023) (with Liang Yang and Pan Hui)
- Thriving NFTs in the Shadow of IP Law, 61 AMERICAN BUSINESS LAW JOURNAL (forthcoming 2024) (with Runhua Wang and Jingwen Liu)
- Internationally Driven But Domestically Aware Legislation in Trouble Times: The First Copyright Statute in China, 11 CHINESE JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE LAW 1 (2023) (with Yangzi Li)
- Formulating Copyright Damages in China, 69 JOURNAL OF THE COPYRIGHT SOCIETY OF THE U.S.A. 185 (2022)
- Legal Institutions of Human Capital: Property, Contract, and Organisation, 13 JOURNAL OF THE KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY 3326 (2022) (with Lauren Yu-Hsin Lin)
- Uncovering Trade Secrets in China: An Empirical Study of Civil Litigation from 2010 to 2020, 17 JOURNAL OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW & PRACTICE 761 (2022) (with Jingwen Liu and Haifeng Huang)
- Legalization of Live Game Streaming Through Statutory Licence in China, 46 COMPUTER LAW & SECURITY REVIEW 1 (2022) (with Zhaoxia Deng)
- Viagra Did Not Work, But Michael Jordan Still Made It: Trademark Policy Toward the Translation of Foreign Marks in China, 20 DUKE LAW & TECHNOLOGY REVIEW 37 (2022) (with Lili Yang)
- Comparative Cybersecurity Law in Socialist Asia, 55 VANDERBILT JOURNAL OF TRANSNATIONAL LAW 631 (2022) (with Bui Ngoc Son)
- The Ping-Pong Olympics of Antisuit Injunction in FRAND Litigation, 28 MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGY LAW REVIEW 305 (2022) (with King Fung Tsang)
- Algorithmic Bias and the New Chicago School, 14 LAW, INNOVATION & TECHNOLOGY 95 (2022)
- Copyright in AI-Generated Works: Lessons from Recent Developments in Patent Law, 19 SCRIPTed: A JOURNAL OF LAW, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY 5 (2022) (with Rita Matulionyte)
- The Pathway Towards Digital Superpower: Copyright Reform in China, 70 GRUR INTERNATIONAL—JOURNAL OF EUROPEAN & INTERNATIONAL IP LAW 861 (2021) (with Yangzi Li)
- Prior-Use Defence in the Chinese Trade Mark Law, 42 EUROPEAN INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY REVIEW 751 (2020) (with Jingwen Liu)
- Forced Technology Transfer in the Case of China, 26 BOSTON UNIVERSITY JOURNAL OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY LAW 324 (2020)
- Shifting IP Battlegrounds in the U.S.–China Trade War, 43 COLUMBIA JOURNAL OF LAW & THE ARTS 147 (2020)
- The Obscure Consumer in the Chinese Intellectual Property Law, 42 EUROPEAN INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY REVIEW 55 (2020) (with Yangzi Li)
- Unfriendly Choice of Law in FRAND, 59 VIRGINIA JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW 220 (2019) (with King Fung Tsang)
- Tripartite Perspective on the Copyright-Sharing Economy in China, 35 COMPUTER LAW & SECURITY REVIEW 434 (2019)
- Hacking into China’s Cybersecurity Law, 53 WAKE FOREST LAW REVIEW 57 (2018)
- Post-Application Evidence of Bad Faith in China’s Trademark Law, 13 JOURNAL OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW & PRACTICE 400 (2018) (with Hui Huang)
- Licensing Open Government Data, 13 HASTINGS BUSINESS LAW JOURNAL 207 (2017)
- Implementing the FRAND Standard in China, 19 VANDERBILT JOURNAL OF ENTERTAINMENT & TECHNOLOGY LAW 37 (2016)
- Copyright Divisibility and the Anticommons, 32 AMERICAN UNIVERSITY INTERNATIONAL LAW REVIEW 117 (2016)
- Real-Name Registration Rules and the Fading Digital Anonymity in China, 25 WASHINGTON INTERNATIONAL LAW JOURNAL 1 (2016) (with Ching-Yi Liu)
- Covenant Design in Financial Contracts: A Case Study of the Private Equity Acquisition of HCA, 19 INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF STRATEGIC PROPERTY MANAGEMENT 325 (2015) (with Tzu-Wen Wei, Chi-Jui Huang, and Tse-Ping Dong)
- Prior Rights in the Chinese Trademark Law, 37 EUROPEAN INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY REVIEW 673 (2015) (with Thomas Mehaffy)
- The Red Storm in Uncharted Waters: China and International Cybersecurity, 82 UMKC LAW REVIEW 951 (2014)
- Searching for Internet Freedom in China: A Case Study on Google’s China Experience, 31 CARDOZO ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT LAW JOURNAL 405 (2013) (with Ching-Yi Liu and Weiping Li)
- Regulating Blogging and Microblogging in China, 91 OREGON LAW REVIEW 609 (2012)
- Forbidden City Enclosed by the Great Firewall: The Law and Power of Internet Filtering in China, 13 MINNESOTA JOURNAL OF LAW, SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 125 (2012) (with Ching-Yi Liu)
- The Greenpeace of Cultural Environmentalism, 16 WIDENER LAW REVIEW 1 (2010)
- Organizing the Unorganized: The Role of Nonprofit Organizations in the Commons Communities, 50 JURIMETRICS J. 275 (2010)
- New Perspectives on Public Goods Production: Policy Implications of Open Source Software, 9 VANDERBILT JOURNAL OF ENTERTAINMENT & TECHNOLOGY LAW 45 (2006)
- Government Policy Toward Open Source Software—The Puzzles of Neutrality and Competition, 18 KNOWLEDGE, TECHNOLOGY & POLICY 113 (2005)
Book Chapters
- FRT Regulation in China, in The Cambridge Handbook of Facial Recognition in the Modern State 242 (Rita Matulionyte and Monika Zalnieriute eds, Cambridge University Press 2024) (with Peng Zhou)
- Civil Follow Criminal or Criminal Follow Civil Procedure as Models to Deal with IP Infringement: Asian vis-à-vis Western Approaches, in KREATION INNOVATION MÄRKTE – CREATION INNOVATION MARKETS: FESTSCHRIFT RETO M. HILTY 663 (Florent Thouvenin, Alexander Peukert, Thomas Jaeger, and Christophe Geiger eds., Springer, 2024) (with Masabumi Suzuki, Su-Hua Lee, Byungil Kim, Xiuqin Lin, Prashant Reddy, Heng Gee Lim, and Kung-Chung Liu)
- The Untold Story of the First Copyright Statute in China: Exploring the 1910 Copyright Code of the Great Qing Dynasty, in INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND THE LAW OF NATIONS, 1860 – 1920 242 (P. Sean Morris eds., Brill, 2022) (with Yangzi Li)
- Hong Kong, in TRADE SECRET PROTECTION: ASIA AT A CROSSROADS 287 (Kung-Chung Liu & Reto M. Hilty eds., Wolters Kluwer, 2021) (with Jingwen Liu)
- Roadmap to Artificial Intelligence and Intellectual Property: An Introduction, in ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY 1 (Jyh-An Lee, Reto M. Hilty, Kung-Chung Liu eds., Oxford University Press, 2021) (with Reto M. Hilty and Kung-Chung Liu)
- Computer-Generated Works under the CDPA 1988, in ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY 177 (Jyh-An Lee, Reto M. Hilty, Kung-Chung Liu eds., Oxford University Press, 2021)
- Domain Name Dispute Resolution in Mainland China and Hong Kong, in CAMBRIDGE HANDBOOK ON INTERNATIONAL AND COMPARATIVE TRADEMARK LAW 398 (Irene Calboli & Jane Ginsburg eds., Cambridge University Press, 2020)
- Beneficiaries and Enforcement of FRAND Declarations/Commitment—Asian Perspectives, in SEPS, SSOS AND FRAND—ASIAN AND GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES ON FOSTERING INNOVATION IN INTERCONNECTIVITY 127 (Kung-Chung Liu & Reto Hilty eds., Routledge, 2020) (with Sang Jo Jong)
- Making a Database Based on the Compilations of Others Is Considered Fair Use in Taiwan, in ANNOTATED LEADING COPYRIGHT CASES IN MAJOR ASIAN JURISDICTIONS 306 (Kung-Chung Liu eds., City University of Hong Kong Press, 2019)
- Open Government Data Licences in the Greater China Region, in MAKING COPYRIGHT WORK IN THE ASIAN PACIFIC: JUXTAPOSING HARMONISATION WITH FLEXIBILITY 197 (Susan Corbett & Jessica Lai eds., ANU Press, 2018)
- Great Firewall, in THE SAGE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE INTERNET 407 (Barney Warf eds., 2018)
- The Legal Framework for FRAND Enforcement in China, in PATENTS AND INNOVATION IN CHINA AND HONG KONG: TWO SYSTEMS IN ONE COUNTRY COMPARED 155 (Yahong Li eds., Cambridge University Press, 2017)
- Digital Copyright in the TPP, in PARADIGM SHIFT IN INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC LAW RULE-MAKING: TPP AS A NEW MODEL FOR TRADE AGREEMENTS? 371 (Julien Chaisse, Henry Gao & Chang-fa Lo eds., Springer, 2017)
- The Determination of FRAND Rate for SEPs: Huawei v. InterDigital, in ANNOTATED LEADING PATENT CASES IN MAJOR ASIAN JURISDICTIONS 194 (Kung-Chung Liu eds., City University of Hong Kong Press, 2017)
- Overlapping Rights in Different Business Models, in REMUNERATION OF COPYRIGHT OWNERS—REGULATORY CHALLENGES OF NEW BUSINESS MODELS 1 (Kung-Chung Liu & Reto M. Hilty eds., Springer, 2017)
- The New Silk Road to Global IP Landscape, in LEGAL DIMENSIONS OF CHINA’S BELT AND ROAD INITIATIVE 417 (Lutz-Christian Wolff & Chao Xi eds., Wolters Kluwer, 2016)
- The Sino-U.S. Digital Relationship and International Cyber Security, in CURRENT AND EMERGING TRENDS IN CYBER OPERATIONS: POLICY, STRATEGY, AND PRACTICE 84 (Frederic Lemieux eds., Palgrave-Macmillan, 2015)
- Review of Granted Compulsory Licenses, in COMPULSORY LICENSING—PRACTICAL EXPERIENCES AND WAYS FORWARD 291 (Reto M. Hilty & Kung-Chung Liu eds., Springer, 2015) (with Chung-Lun Shen)
- Nonprofits in the Commons Economy, in THE SAGE HANDBOOK OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY 335 (Matthew David & Debora Halbert eds., 2014)
- Filtering Online Content in China, in COMPUTER-MEDIATED COMMUNICATION ACROSS CULTURES: INTERNATIONAL INTERACTIONS IN ONLINE ENVIRONMENTS (IGI Global, 2011)