Most of the galactic law involving machine intelligences long predates the appearance of GENOM on the scene; much of it was adapted from legal codes prevailing before the establishment of galactic governance in, e.g., Corellian or Salusian space, and some of those codes were themselves adapted from older ones. A lot of Corellian common law, for instance, dates back (in often-heavily-modified form, admittedly) to Corellia's founding as a colony of the ancient Atlantean Empire, ca 5,000 Standard years ago, and some of those laws were inherited from the Padishah, millennia before that. (Although obviously not the laws about thinking machines, as they were flatly illegal under Padishah law.)

The Turing Institute, obviously, has only been called that since the early 21st century; before Earth Contact it was called something else. It's been there, under various names, for a very long time. To paraphrase Edward R. Murrow, GENOM didn't create the legal climate that gave them such dominion over their product line, they only exploited it, and rather successfully.

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