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Lawyers In Space...
colonist writes "The Christian Science Monitor presents an interesting overview of space law. Some want space to be shared by all: 'Outer space is a province of all mankind. There is not, and should not be, any privatization of outer space. It is a common thing that should belong to all.' Some people have claimed parts of the moon or Mars. In response, a lawyer has claimed the sun, 'to show how ridiculous a property-rights system in outer space would be if it were based solely on claims unsubstantiated by any actual possession.' The Space Settlement Initiative wants official recognition of land claims made by those who establish human settlements on the moon or Mars."
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from the forty-acres-and-a-mule dept.
That is obviously a racist slur, Michael. First 'solly cholly", now this.
Actually this will be one of the major turning pointsw of the current patent laws... Currently we have the situation that one entity-the US tries to enforce its already broken patent system on the rest of the world, which complies as long as they can gain am advantage. All it takes is one major entity, china, eu, australia, even japan, to break out of the system and all the artificial patent barriers crumble within a short period of time. Artificial systems only can work as long as the people are willing to carry them. Even the english or US landgrabbing would not have worked if it was not carried by a majority of people, or lets say tolerated. The indians for instance had the disadvantage of almost no technology less people, although some of the tribes were socially more advanced that 19th century USA.