Hoss, you REALLY need to start paying attention.
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Quote by: PatrickHenry There IS a commons. Who owns the atmosphere? |
The atmosphere is devided up into sections above specific countries known as airspaces. It won't be long until corporations own part of it.
Ever heard of fishing lanes? International waters? There are lot of areas of the ocean that belong to specific individuals. Most of them are along coastlines, specific organisms within the ocean, or areas around ships.
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The space outside the earth's atmosphere?
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The stuff that we make that goes up there is all owned by corporations or governments and it's only a matter of time before corporations begin attempting to claim / copyright areas or ideas relating to space.
You know the song Happy Birthday? Yup. Copyrighted. Want to make a movie where characters sing Happy Birthday? You better cough of $10K. That's the going price right now.