A Review Of Challenges To Corporate Expansion Into Outer Space

Outer Space, Alien Life and Intellectual Property Protocols: An Opportunity to Rethink Life Patents

“…As stated in Article II of the 1967 OST, 'Outer space, including the moon and other celestial bodies, is not subject to national appropriation by claim of sovereignty, by means of use or occupation, or by any other means'. However, others interpret the Treaty as silent regarding private ownership of real property and argue that it specifically prohibits sovereign claims only; private acquisition is not blocked (Hearsey, 2008;Reynolds, 2008;Wasser and Jobes, 2008;Pop 2009). A third position is that it permits 'functional' real property distinguishable from deeded real property.…”

The New Space Age in the making: Emergence of exo-mining, exo-burials and exo-marketing

“…To date, the outer space activities are regulated by international agreements such as Outer Space Treaty (UN 1966) and the Moon Treaty (UN 1979). Hearsey (2008), for example, offers a review of challenges to corporate expansion into outer space. It is no surprise that the issues of international space law, legal protection in space, space industrialization, regulation of commercial space activities in general (Tatsuzawa 1988) and the need to restructure the space law (Hulsroj 2002), became widely discussed topics.…”

“…Hearsey (2008), for example, offers a review of challenges to corporate expansion into outer space. The legal challenges of human space travel including space tourism, orbital and suborbital space flight were discussed by Masson Zwaan (2010).…”