We have a beautiful view of fire.
Maria Angeles Duran from Vigo, Spain claimed ownership of the sun back in 2010 (she also tried to copyright
Tarzan's yell in 2012). Now, she wants to sue the internet giant eBay for infringing on her rights to
sell land on the sun.
In 2013, Duran began selling plots of the sun at a price of €1 per square metre on eBay in Italy and Spain with the promise "buy new object, unused, unopened, undamaged. Shipping is free" - and in return buyers received a diploma of acquisition.
According to Duran, she received 600 orders worth €1,200 but some customers were left disappointed by the closure of the page; eBay closed the page because the item on sale could not be touched or transported and it believed it to be a scam.
According to Duran, she was charged €101 in commission by eBay but was unable to collect the money paid by her customers.
Before you laugh too hard:
A magistrate's court in Madrid has declared that Maria Angeles Duran, from Vigo in Spain's northwestern region of Galicia, has the right to take eBay to court after it blocked her account which was selling plots of land on the sun at a price €1 (73p) per metre square.
The trial will go ahead in mid-July, reports the Spanish newspaper La Voz de Galicia.
She sued eBay for breach of contract last year. eBay tried to settle the suit out of court but Duran did not accept the settlement. She is continuing to sell plots of the sun on her own
website.
I've got a plot of land to sell you, over a bridge, to the stars!