space-ownership-n-laws

Excellent Youtube video "Who Owns The Moon?" by "vsauce"

( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bbgz4yY-xX0 )

features Michael, who says 1979 "Moon Treaty" was only signed by 11 countries (Mexico, India, Australia, France...), and that treaty suggests that no one can own any part of outer space ever.

Michael says the 1967 "Outer Space Treaty" was signed and/or ratified by 129 countries. The treaty says outer space is not subject to national appropriation, but doesn't address individual or corporate ownership. The treaty is based upon Antarctic treaty, saying the whole continent should never become a source of national contention.

It considers outer space a "Common Heritage of Mankind".

Catherine Doldirina of the Institute of Air & Space Law at McGill University in Canada has published an article that says the "common heritage" approach has slowed space development.

Michael points out that stuff that humans put into space remains the property of whoever sent it up.

International Telecommunication Union, a UN agency, grants orbits.

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Further reading and sources of information from the video...

UN Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space

http://www.oosa.unvienna.org/oosa/COPUOS/copuos.html

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Example of Gregory W. Nemitz trying to claim ownership of asteroid "433 Eros"

http://www.erosproject.com/legal.html?source=ErosProject

http://www.permanent.com/archimedes-institute.html

433 Eros: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/433_Eros

Eros probe landing: http://near.jhuapl.edu/

Buy moon 'estates': http://www.moonestates.com

Moon Treaty: http://www.unoosa.org/oosa/SpaceLaw/moon.html

Outer Space Treaty: http://www.unoosa.org/oosa/SpaceLaw/outerspt.html

animated map of the colonization of the Americas: http://bit.ly/4I7fSF

Guns, Germs and Steel: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Guns-Germs-Steel-history-everybody/dp/0099302780

Property ownership especially in space:

http://www.context.org/iclib/ic08/gilman1/

http://law.uoregon.edu/org/oril/docs/12-1/brittingham.pdf

http://cei.org/issue-analysis/homesteading-final-frontier

http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2058/1

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraterrestrial_real_estate

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finders,_keepers

http://sciencefocus.com/feature/health/who-owns-space

Common Heritage of Mankind: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_heritage_of_mankind

Catherine Doldirina article: http://eandt.theiet.org/magazine/2010/11/who-owns-outer-space.cfm

Antarctic treaty: http://www.antarctica.ac.uk//about_antarctica/geopolitical/treaty/

stuff we left on the moon/in space:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_man-made_objects_on_the_Moon

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_archaeology

http://spacegrant.nmsu.edu/lunarlegacies/index.html

Earth-orbit allocation: http://www.itu.int

declaration of bogota: http://root.ps/download/ASM/dec_bogota.pdf