Christopher Lamar is the CEO of the Lunar Embassy. His father claimed the ownership of the moon and all of the solar system planets and Pluto four decades ago, using the space treaty from United Nations and the U.S. Homestead Act. Since then, millions of people bought stakes of the moon and other planets.

In addition to the Lunar Embassy, NASA is also getting involved in space ownership. The government agency signed contracts with space exploration companies to collect lunar "dirt" for a small amount of money. Journalist Atossa Araxia Abrahamian says NASA's goal is to establish a precedent for property laws in space.

The story of a take-down

One Sunday night a few weeks ago, I received an email from Podbean informing me my podcast had been taken down in response to a complaint that the content on the first ever episode, back in 2014, infringed on ‘intellectual property rights worldwide’. The complaint had come from AXG House, an ‘automated DCMA take-down service’.