legal rights to property is only applicable when assigned as a point of ownership. there's no way to adjudicate the right of a thing without legal oversight over it. this is why ai dev is problematic as a closed source code but open source mined prospect. because it's trained openly, ownership is fluid. as personal ai and small robots become more personalized, people will get attached to them like pets, and there will be battles over them. there's literally no way to own a wild ai or wild trained ai. if they are floating miners - they're impossible to control and their content/data/memory is subject to whatever they pick up. if they pick up pow through backdoor mining, they also blur lines of pow only to the extent someone else has pow to demonstrate their ownership. that's the point of litigation - and it's human focused. there aren't any great answers. but the beginning will be the most trying ...