Entertainment & Sports
Jul. 26, 2016
San Diego Comic-Con lets attorneys engage a unique audience with novel legal questions
Featuring California Supreme Court Justice Mariano-Florentino Cuellar, former judge and Facebook Vice President Paul Grewal, and Neel Chatterjee, an intellectual property litigator with Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, the panel examined how the legal system in "Star Trek" operates and compares to our own.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
SAN DIEGO — A dispute between an author and his publisher about draft changes to a novel hits a serious legal hitch when the publisher poses a simple question to the court: What protectable rights does the author have, considering he's computer operated by artificial intelligence?
This dilemma, as posed to a United Federation of Planets tribunal in a "Star Trek" episode, was a topic of...
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