• Phanatik@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Finders keepers isn’t legally binding and there’s a vast difference between a company owning a shipwreck and a country, namely that the company will just auction off whatever it finds to private collections or museums for the sake of profit.

    There should be a bounty for finding historical pieces but you shouldn’t be able to own them. Just because you found it, doesn’t make you the de facto owner.

    I don’t know whether or not France were looking for it but they are within their rights to claim what’s theirs.