Jyh-An Lee is a Professor and Executive Director of the Centre for Legal Innovation and Digital Society (CLINDS) at The Chinese University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law. He has been a faculty member of the CUHK EMBA program since 2018. Professor Lee also coaches the New Ventures Legal Team (NVLT), a clinical support group collaborating with the University’s Pre-Incubation Centre for startup companies. He was the LLB Programme Director and Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Studies from 2019 to 2021.

Professor Lee holds a J.S.D. from Stanford Law School and an LL.M from Harvard Law School. He has published on various aspects of intellectual property and Internet law. His research appears in academic journals, such as the Wake Forest Law Review, Oregon Law Review, Columbia Journal of Law & the Arts, Duke Law & Technology Review, Virginia Journal of International Law, Michigan Technology Law Review, Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law, Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology, Jurimetrics, Boston University Journal of Science & Technology Law, Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Review, European Intellectual Property Review (EIPR), Computer Law & Security Review, etc. His authored and edited books include Nonprofit Organizations and the Intellectual Commons (Edward Elgar, 2012), Intellectual Property Law in China (Wolters Kluwer, 2nd edn, 2021, co-authored with Peter Ganea, Danny Friedmann, and Douglas Clark), and Artificial Intelligence and Intellectual Property (Oxford University Press, 2021, co-edited with Reto M. Hilty and Kung-Chung Liu).

During his studies at Stanford Law School, he was a John M. Olin Fellow in Law and Economics. Prior to joining the Chinese University of Hong Kong, he taught at National Chengchi University and was an Associate Research Fellow at the Center for Information Technology Innovation at Academia Sinica in Taiwan. He was the Legal Lead and Co-Lead of Creative Commons Taiwan (2011–2014) and an advisory committee member for Copyright Amendment at the Taiwan Intellectual Property Office (TIPO) at the Ministry of Economic Affairs (2011–2014). Professor Lee has been the Legal Lead of the Creative Commons Hong Kong Chapter since October 2018. He is currently a member of the European Center for E-Commerce & Internet Law advisory board, which is affiliated with the University of Vienna. Since 2016, he has held a panelist position for the Asian Domain Name Dispute Resolution Centre (ADNDRC). Professor Lee 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. His works have been cited by the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, UK High Court of Justice, and the US International Trade Commission. Before starting his academic career, he was a practicing lawyer in Taiwan, specializing in technology and business transactions.

EDUCATIONAL AND PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS

• JSD (Stanford)
• LLM (Harvard)
• MBA, LLB (NTU)
• Admitted to Practice in Taiwan

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Intellectual Property
• Information Law
• Internet Law

AWARDS

• CUHK Vice-Chancellor’s Exemplary Teaching Award 2019
• CUHK Young Researcher Award 2019
• CUHK Law Faculty Teaching Excellence Award 2018
• CUHK Research Excellence Award 2016-17

APPOINTMENTS

• TRAIL Academic Fellow, National University of Singapore Faculty of Law (2022 – present)
• Visiting Professor, The University of Tokyo Faculty of Law (2020)
• Visiting Professor, National Taiwan University College of Law (2019)
• ARCIALA Visiting Professor, Singapore Management University School of Law (2017)
• Associate Professor, NCCU, Taiwan (2012-2014)
• Associate Research Fellow, CITI, Academia Sinica, Taiwan (2012-2014)
• Assistant Professor, NCCU, Taiwan (2009-2012)
• John M. Olin Fellow in Law and Economics, Stanford Law School (2006, 2007, 2008-2009)

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Books

• INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW IN CHINA (Wolters Kluwer, 2^nd ed. 2021) (with Peter Ganea, Danny Friedmann, and Douglas Clark, edited by Christopher Heath)
• ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY (Jyh-An Lee, Reto Hilty, and Kung-Chung Liu eds., Oxford University Press, 2021)
• NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS AND THE INTELLECTUAL COMMONS (Edward Elgar, 2012)
• CODING A FREE SOCIETY: OPEN SOURCE STRATEGIES FOR POLICYMAKERS (VDM Verlag Dr. Müller Press, 2007)

Journal Papers

• Internationally Driven But Domestically Aware Legislation in Trouble Times: The First Copyright Statute in China, 11 CHINESE JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE LAW (forthcoming 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)
• What China Can Learn from Common Law Approach to Trade Secrets and the Protection of Confidential Information? (由普通法观点论对商业秘密和机密信息的保护), 2020(4) SJTU Law Review (交大法学) 34 (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 HUANG Hui)
• 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)
• The Mechanics of Copyright Safe Harbor Sluice （避风港闸门的法律结构：网络服务提供者民事免责事由分析）, 18 INTERNET LAW REVIEW 280 (2015) (Peking University Press)
• 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)
• Gene Patents in the Aftermath of AMP v. Myriad Genetics, Inc. （由AMP v. Myriad Genetics, Inc.案談基因專利之適格性）, 12 NCCU INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY REVIEW 1 (2014)
• The Red Storm in Uncharted Waters: China and International Cybersecurity, 82 UMKC LAW REVIEW 951 (2014)
• Basic Principles of Open Government Data and Related Policy Issues（開放政府資料的基本原則與相關政策議題）, 2(1) PUBLIC GOVERNANCE QUARTERLY 65 (2014) (with Tyng-Ruey Chuang and Lucien C.H. Lin)
• Copyright Reform in the Digital Age （資訊時代中的著作權改革運動）, TAIWAN ASSOCIATION FOR HUMAN RIGHTS QUARTERLY (Spring 2014)
• Policy Implications of the ISP Safe Harbor in Copyright Law （失衡的承諾：著作權法責任避風港規範之立法政策評析）, 43 NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY LAW JOURNAL 143 (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)
• Reasonable Protective Measures and Trade Secret Protection of Client Information （合理保密措施與客戶資訊之營業秘密保護）, 238 TAIWAN LAW JOURNAL 199 (2013)
• An Empirical Study of Trade Secret Litigation in Taiwan （臺灣營業秘密侵害訴訟之實證研究）, 216 TAIWAN LAW REVIEW 151 (2013) (with Jerry G. Fong)
• Patent Acquisition and Licensing Strategies in the Complex Innovation Environment （複雜創新環境中的專利取得模式）, 12 TAIWAN PATENT ATTORNEYS JOURNAL 97 (2013)
• Copyright and the Second Live of Fictional Characters （故事角色的第二人生：論著作權法對故事角色之保護）, 169 INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHT JOURNAL 104 (2013)
• 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)
• Cinderella in Copyright Law: Reconsidering the Role of Copyright Users （著作權法中的灰姑娘：利用人地位之探討）, 41 NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY LAW JOURNAL 931 (2012)
• Fair Use of Whose Work? Making Sense of Attribution in Fair Use Analysis （合理使用誰的著作？論合理使用與出處明示之關連）, 126 CHENGCHI LAW REVIEW 357 (2012)
• Book Review: The Beauty and Sorrow of Human Nature: The Cooperative and Selfish Genes in the Past, Present, and Future—Benkler’s The Penguin and the Leviathan （人性的美麗與哀愁：跨越時空的利人與利己基因）, 111 MASS COMMUNICATION RESEARCH 257 (2012)
• Restructuring the Copyright Damage Scheme （解構著作權法的損害賠償方程式－－以著作財產權之侵害為中心）, 124 CHENGCHI LAW REVIEW 299 (2011)
• The Damage Paradox in Software Copyright Infringement （電腦軟體程式著作權侵害損害賠償的計算迷思）, 190 TAIWAN LAW REVIEW 108 (2011)
• Copyright Protection of Database in Taiwan （論著作權法中編輯著作對資料庫之保護範圍）, 188 TAIWAN LAW REVIEW 36 (2011)
• 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)
• Freeing Up the Freedom in Free Culture: Compatibility Between Public Licenses （論公眾授權條款之相容性：以創用CC授權條款及GFDL為中心）, 7 TECHNOLOGY LAW REVIEW 1 (2010) (with Yi-Hsuan Lin)
• Legal Implications of Cloud Computing （當法律漫步在雲端）, 15 JOURNAL OF NEW PERSPECTIVES ON LAW 49 (2010)
• From Traditional Commercial Academic Publishing to Open Access Publishing （從傳統到開放的學術期刊出版：開放近用出版相關問題初探）, 33 JOURNAL OF LIBRARY & INFORMATION SCIENCE 39 (2007) (with Yi-Hsuan Lin)
• New Perspectives on Public Goods Production: Policy Implications of Open Source Software, 9 VANDERBILT JOURNAL OF ENTERTAINMENT & TECHNOLOGY LAW 45 (2006)
• Fundamental Regulatory Issues in the Era of Digital Convergence （關於數位匯流的基本管制問題）, 3 TECHNOLOGY LAW REVIEW 163 (2006)
• Government Policy Toward Open Source Software—The Puzzles of Neutrality and Competition, 18 KNOWLEDGE, TECHNOLOGY & POLICY 113 (2005)
• Broadband Open Access and Competition Policy （寬頻網路之開放接取與競爭政策）, 12 FAIR TRADE QUARTERLY 25 (2004)
• Analysis & Comment on Taiwan’s National Defense Act 2002 : From the Viewpoint of Military Politics （由軍事政治學之觀點論國防法）, 49 MILITARY LAW JOURNAL 37 (2003)
• Sale of Corporation’s Substantially All Assets （公司出售主要部份資產之研究）, 86 TAIWAN LAW REVIEW 167 (2002) (with Yu-Hsin Lin)
• Value Created by Business Lawyer in M&A Transactions : Business Lawyers as Transaction Cost Engineers （論商務律師於併購交易中創造之價值：交易成本工程師概念之提出）, 53 THE LAW MONTHLY 40 (2002) (with Yu-Hsin Lin)
• Policy Concerns for Patentibility of Internet Business Method Patent （網路時代中商業方法可專利性之政策分析）, 29 SOCIOECONOMIC L. & INSTITUTION REVIEW 217 (2002)
• Intellectual Property Right Related Issues of Business Method （商業方法相關智慧財產權問題之研究）, 13 SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY LAW REVIEW 48 (2001)

Book Chapters

• 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—RERULATORY 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 Neglected Copyright Users（被忽視的版權使用人）, in COPYRIGHT, THE INTERNET, AND THE BALANCE OF RIGHTS 33 (Yahong Li eds., Hong Kong University Press, 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)
• Deconstructing the Legal Structure of ISP Safe Harbor（網路服務提供者民事免責事由之要件分析）, in COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW OF COPYRIGHT LAW UNDER INTERNATIONAL COMPARISON 451 (Kung-Chung Liu eds., Academia Sinica, 2014)
• Nonprofits in the Commons Economy, in THE SAGE HANDBOOK OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY 335 (Matthew David & Debora Halbert eds., 2014)
• Copyright Infringement: Access and Substantial Similarity（著作權侵害之認定標準：以「接觸」與「實質相似」為中心）, in INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LITIGATION AND INSTITUTION IN TAIWAN (II), Judicial Yuan (2013)
• Information and the Law （資訊與法律）, in LAW AND INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES 60 (2013)
• Introduction to Intellectual Property Law in Taiwan （臺灣智慧財產權法概論）, in INTRODUCTION TO TAIWANESE LAW 321 (2013)
• The Development and Challenges of Cultural and Creative Industries in the Digital Environment （數位時代文化創意產業之發展與挑戰–從兩岸ECFA合作框架談起）, in PROTECTION, APPLICATION, AND LAW OF DIGITAL COPYRIGHT 27 (2012) (with Jerry G. Fong and Chung-Lun Shen)
• The Law of Cloud Computing （雲端運算相關法律問題初探）, in NEW ISSUES AND TRENDS OF FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC LAWS 539 (2011)
• Filtering Online Content in China, in COMPUTER-MEDIATED COMMUNICATION ACROSS CULTURES: INTERNATIONAL INTERACTIONS IN ONLINE ENVIRONMENTS (IGI Global, 2011)
• The Government and the Bazaar: Open Source Revolution in the Public Sector, in OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE: EMERGING ISSUES (ICFAI University Press, 2008)
• Strategic Implication of E-Commerce Business Method Patent （電子化企業之商業方法專利策略）, in 2001 YEARBOOK OF CHINESE SOCIETY FOR MANAGEMENT OF TECHNOLOGY 371 (2001)