Hey you - wanna buy a moon?
Interesting article from the Christian Science Monitor on space ownership laws. With more and more people trying to sell land on the moon or at least letting you name a star, space law is becoming a hot issue. Should we encourage private land holdings on Mars to spark space exploration? Or should a UN like body govern the cosmos? Should it be free for all, or a free for all?
Thanks to Slashdot for the tip off.
An interesting comparison to property rights and government claims on the moon might be Antarctica — see, for example, http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/About_Antarctica/Treaty/index.html.