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Felix's avatar

Not quite the same, but the first time I thought of property rights as a thing in general was some sci-fi story I read as a kid concerning access to oxygen, water, and food, which have absolute limits, and a stowaway raised the question of who dies on a long voyage? I recall other stories and movies since with the same problem, but none surprised me as much as that unknown first one.

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Daniel A. Nagy's avatar

There are already property rights for slots of the Geosynchronous orbit, since 1973, administered by ITU (a UN organization). Here is a reasonably good popular description of how it works, in the context of an interesting case:

https://thespacereview.com/article/1634/1

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