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An early legal case regarding holograms and sentience came about in [[2377]]. The {{USS|Voyager}}'s [[Emergency Medical Hologram|EMH]], [[The Doctor]], attempted to publish a [[hologram|holonovel]], but it was appropriated and released without his permission by his publisher. The legal issue revolved around whether The Doctor was an "artist" within the meaning of the laws that granted rights to control the dissemination of intellectual property. The ruling was narrow in that the definition of artist in that single law was extended to a hologram, but it was an important step on the path toward granting full legal status to a hologram as a sentient entity.