“For the last few years, a new, innovative business model has been on the rise. It is called ‘space mining’ – digging for valuable resources in asteroids and other minor planets in outer space. Big companies with exotic names, like Space X by Elon Musk, or Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin, pump billions into this future industry. These space miners go for profit; extracting extraterrestrial resources and selling them for big money to the people on Earth. On planet Earth, we have a system for the safeguarding and transfer of value: property law …” (more)
[Eva Vermeulen, Transformative Private Law Blog, 2 November]
First posted 2020-12-14 18:42:44
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