#7 -- Murder Law for Murder Bots! (Westworld)

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09/02/17 • 80 min

First, Sorry to everyone for the delay in posting! Unfortunately, the increased violence in Chicago has made my criminal defense job pretty stressful this summer, and I've been low on editing time. We will do our best to return to one episode a month this fall.

This month, we review Westworld, a show that offers up really important questions like...Are robots capable of the mens rea for murder? Can Dr. Ford use the technicalities of software end user license agreements to avoid all liability for his murder bots? What can selfie monkey teach us about whether Dolores can claim copyright for those pretty paintings she makes? Can Sarah and Meredith geek out about AI capabilities so much that half this episode is weird tangents? Find out on this month's Ad Absurdum!

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--Leave a review on iTunes so more people can find the show and learn their fictional rights.

Join Ad Absurdum next month on October 3rd as they will dream about Inception.

Artwork by Meredith Rose

Opening music by Adam Lord

--Leave any questions you have for the trio in the comment section at TheArtImmortal.com

--Leave a review on iTunes so more people can find the show and learn their fictional rights.

Join Ad Absurdum next month on October 3rd as they will dream about Inception.

Artwork by Meredith Rose

Opening music by Adam Lord

Previous Episode

#6 -- Tic Tac D'Oh - I Blew Up the Planet (War Games)

Apologies for our 1-month hiatus: we're back! This month, Meredith and Sarah talk the 1983 nerd MASTERPIECE War Games. We think the trailer to this movie might be the sum total of what Donald Trump knows about cyber security, so we talk about how scary that is and how to stop him from blowing up the earth. We also talk about the process by which America plays the game of thermonuclear war, and calculate exactly how many months of federal prison time Matthew Broderick's character owes Uncle Sam.

--Leave any questions you have for the trio in the comment section at TheArtImmortal.com

--Leave a review on iTunes so more people can find the show and learn their fictional rights.

Join Ad Absurdum next month on July 3rd as they will take a trip to Westworld.

Artwork by Meredith Rose

Opening music by Adam Lord

Next Episode

#8 -- We Dreamed a Dream (Inception)

The Pop Culture Legal Team is back as they discuss the strangest form of insider trading and corporate espionage: the kind that takes place in your dreams. Join Sarah and Meredith and their guest Sherwin Siy as they look at the legal ramifications of Christopher Nolan's hit 2010 thriller Inception.

--UPDATE: The audio issue with the ending has been fixed.

--Leave any questions you have for the trio in the comment section at TheArtImmortal.com

--Leave a review on iTunes so more people can find the show and learn their fictional rights.

Join Ad Absurdum next month on December 3rd as they welcome THE PURGE.

Artwork by Meredith Rose

Opening music by Adam Lord