Danny Friedmann is an Associate Professor of Law at Peking University School of Transnational Law. His research generally focuses on intellectual property and specifically on AI and copyright law, trademark law, geographical indications, patent law, and law and technology.
His articles are published by peer-reviewed journals such as Journal of World Intellectual Property, Journal of Intellectual Property Law and Practice, European Intellectual Property Review, Benelux Trade Marks and Design Rights (BMM) Bulletin and GRUR Int., and Asia Pacific Law Review. His recent work was published in the student-reviewed journals IDEA and CWILJ. An article in NYU JIPEL is forthcoming.
In 2021, Danny was awarded by the International Organisation of Vine and Wine (OIV) for co-editing and co-authoring ‘Wine Law and Policy: From National Terroirs to a Global Market.' His monograph is titled “Trademarks and Social Media, Towards Algorithmic Justice” (Edward Elgar Publishing, September 2015). In 2014, the Research Committee of CUHK granted Danny the Postgraduate Research Output Award. 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.
He has taught at CUHK, where he completed his PhD in Laws, and also at City University of Hong Kong, and Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He completed his LL.M. and LL.B. (Meester in de rechten) at the University of Amsterdam. Danny also holds a B.B.A. degree from Nyenrode Business University, Breukelen, the Netherlands.
Danny Friedmann, Copyright as Affirmative Action for Human Authors Until the Singularity (December 12, 2023). GRUR International, Volume 73, Issue 1, January 2024, 1–2.
CHEN Jun and Danny Friedmann, Jumping from Mother Monkey to Bored Ape: The Value of NFTs from an Artist's And Intellectual Property Perspective(16 September 2022) inASIA PACIFIC LAW REVIEW (Taylor & Francis).
The Rational Construction of a Universal Register for Distinctive Wines and Spirits GIs Against Dilution (December 7, 2021) in JOURNAL OF WORLD INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, 2021; 25: 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’ (advance publication April 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.
‘The Uniqueness of the Trademark, A Critical Analysis of the Specificity and Territoriality Principles’ (September 2016) 28 (11) EUROPEAN INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY REVIEW (Sweet & Maxwell) 678-686.
‘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.
Danny Friedmann, Revitalizing TRIPs as Global Norm-Setter for Geographical Indications, in THE ELGAR COMPANION TO THE WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION, Julien Chaisse and Cristián Rodríguez-Chiffelle, eds. (Edward Elgar, 2023) 377–396.
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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, Forthcoming)
Danny Friedmann,‘Trade Marks and Related Rights’in Chistopher Heath (ed.) INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW IN CHINA, Max Planck Series on Asian Intellectual Property Law, 2nd Edition (Kluwer Law International 2021) 153-291.
Danny Friedmann and Peter Ganea, ‘Introduction’ in Chistopher Heath (ed.) INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW IN CHINA, Max Planck Series on Asian Intellectual Property Law, 2nd Edition (Kluwer Law International 2021) 1-11.
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.
‘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.
‘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.
‘Protecting the Integrity of Consumer Information and the Supply Chain of Wine in China’, THE LEGAL PROTECTION OF CONSUMERS: DEVELOPING A MARKET ECONOMY IN CHINA (Fernando Dias Simões ed.) forthcoming 2018/2019.
‘Geographical Indications in the EU, China and Australia: WTO Case Bottling Up Over Prosecco’, in Julien Chaisse (ed.), SIXTY YEARS OF EUROPEAN INTEGRATION AND GLOBAL POWER SHIFTS; PERCEPTIONS, INTERACTIONS AND LESSONS (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2019) 411-427.
‘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) 291-307.
‘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) 382-394.
‘Articles 105, 118, 139 and 140’, in HONG KONG BASIC LAW HANDBOOK (Michael Ramsden and Stuart Hargreaves eds., Hong Kong: Sweet & Maxwell, December 2015).
‘Paradoxes, Google and China – How Censorship Can Harm and IntellectualProperty Can Harness Innovation’ (July 1, 2011) in GOOGLE AND THE LAW: IT AND THE LAW, Aurelio Lopez-Tarruella, ed. (The Hague: TMC Asser, 2012) 303-327. Cited by Advocate General of the Court of Justice of the European Union, Niilo Jääskinen, in the Opinion C‑131/12Google Spainof 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.
‘Hong Kong IP in The Greater Bay Area’, IEEM, Artyzen Grand Lapa Macau, 8 November 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., 3-4 November 2023 (invited in person).
‘AI and Copyright Law’, Faculty Enrichment Talk at William S. Boyd School of Law at University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 1 November 2023 (invited in person).
‘AI and Copyright Law with Chinese Characteristics or Sweet Spot of Regulation’, at the Inaugural Asian IP Scholars Roundtable in Seattle, organized by University of Washington and Texas A&M University, in Seattle 13-14 October 2023 (invited in person).
15th Annual Intellectual Property Conference, ‘The Dog Who Mistook His Chewy-Toy For a Whiskey Bottle -Jack Daniel's Properties Inc. v VIP Products LLCat the US Supreme Court’at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, 29 July 2023 (invited in person).
Key note ‘Trademark Law With Chinese Characteristics’ at the Benelux Office for Intellectual Property (BOIP) in The Hague, the Netherlands on 2 May 2023 (invited in person).
‘Algorithmic Dissuasion: De-ranking Possible Copyright Infringing Content into Relative Oblivion’, Workshop on Algorithmic Recommendation and Law, Peking University School of Transnational Law, 26 March 2023 (invited in person).
‘The Value of NFTs from an Artist's and Intellectual Property Perspective’, Digital Platform Governance: Security, Scalability and Sustainability, CLINDS Conference, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 10 January 2023 (invited online).
14th Annual Intellectual Property Conference, ‘Digital Single Market, First Stop to the Metaverse: Counterlife of Copyright Protection Wanted‘ at the CUHK on 29 July 2022.
IEEM IP Programme 2022: Webinar on 25 Years of TRIPs Agreement, ‘IP and the metaverse with Chinese characteristics' at Artyzen Grand Lapa Macau, 11 April 2022.
Law and Economics of the Digital Transformation, ‘Counterlife of Copyright Protection Wanted for the Metaverse' at the University of Lucerne, Switzerland, 8 April 2022.
‘Book Talk: Intellectual Property in China, 2nd Ed.,' at Berkeley Center for Law & Technology, 23 September 2021.
Seminar ‘Prosecco and Two Conflicting Geographical Indications Agreements’ , at the Roma Tre University, Rome, Italy (via Zoom) on 3 May 2021.
Jean Monnet Seminar ‘The Walled Gardens of Social Media in the Age of The Digital Single Market‘ at the University of Macau on 24 May 2019.
8th Law and Economics Conference: “Consumer Law and Economics”,‘Correcting Information Asymmetry via Deep Consumer Information; Compelling Companies to Let the Sunshine In’, at the Faculty of Law, University of Luzern on 29-30 March 2019.
Workshop on “Global Governance and Innovation: Law and Science Fiction”, “Walled Gardens in Times of Deep Learning” at the University of Macau on 22 August 2018.
Food Law Conference, ‘Bellicose Coexistence: Italian versus Australian Prosecco in China: GI Protection viasui generisor trademark system’ at CUHK, 1 December 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, 6 October 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, 16-17 October 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 Power Point 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 29-30 June 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 6-7 December 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?’, 28 October 2016.
3rd Visionary IP Professors Roundtable (CUHK, Singapore Management University and Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition) at NTU, 31 Aug-1 October 2016.
The Trans-Pacific Partnership: A Paradigm Shift in International Trade Regulation?, ‘Protection of New Geographic Indications’, at CUHK, 16-17 May 2016.
2nd Visionary IP Professors Roundtable (CUHK, Singapore Management University and Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition) at CUHK, 5-6 March 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.
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’, January 2012.
IP Academy of Singapore, 3rd Global Forum on Intellectual Property, January 2011: Presenter, panellist, ‘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’.
