Uncommon Commons, Commodities and Tokens in Outer Space: A Critical Viewpoint on New Competition Issues

Q3 Social Sciences

Astropolitics Pub Date : 2021-05-04 DOI:10.1080/14777622.2021.1988572

Maria Lucas-Rhimbassen, L. Rapp, L. Mallowan

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ABSTRACT This viewpoint essay addresses salient issues raised by the commodification of space resources, and the shifting legal frameworks struggling to adapt and to evolve on par with the rapid developments of the economy and the commercial aspects of the space sector, and, particularly, with the competition law problems arising from these developments. In this context, this paper address antitrust issues of emerging commercial space law (lex mercatoria spatialis) rooted in cyber infrastructure, such as decentralized distributed technology (DLT), which is especially prone to concentration and consortium-building dynamics. This consolidated tokenization of space resources and rights, via dematerialized layers of processes and loopholes, can be kept in check by a space antitrust framework based on axioms and tenets reminiscent of the ethical principles as enshrined within the regime of international space law (corpus juris spatialis) to be pursued under the philosophy of an academic perspective antitrust philosophy called “noble competition” as first proposed by Stucke and Ezrachi. The authors posit that the space sector is the perfect arena to test such a new framework.

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外太空的稀有公地、商品与代币:一个新竞争问题的批判视角

这篇观点文章讨论了空间资源商品化所带来的突出问题，以及随着经济和空间部门商业方面的快速发展而努力适应和发展的不断变化的法律框架，特别是这些发展所产生的竞争法问题。在此背景下，本文讨论了基于网络基础设施的新兴商业空间法(lex mercatoria spatialis)的反垄断问题，例如分散的分布式技术(DLT)，这种技术特别容易出现集中和财团建设动态。这种空间资源和权利的统一标记化，通过非物质化的过程和漏洞，可以通过一个基于公理和原则的空间反垄断框架来加以控制，该框架让人想起国际空间法(corpus juris spatialis)制度中所载的伦理原则，该框架将在学术视角下的反垄断哲学下进行，该哲学被称为“高贵竞争”，由Stucke和Ezrachi首先提出。作者认为，太空部门是测试这种新框架的完美场所。

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Astropolitics Social Sciences-Political Science and International Relations

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期刊介绍： Astropolitics: The International Journal of Space Politics and Policy is a peer-reviewed academic journal. The journal is dedicated to policy relevant and interdisciplinary analysis of civil, commercial, military, and intelligence space activities. Committed to the highest editorial standards, Astropolitics is the international journal of choice for the academic, policy-maker and professional in the space community.