[bryanlarsen]

It'll be interesting to see how this plays out on the moon. The Outer Space Treaty along with the Artemis Accords makes moon ownership illegal, but it also makes interference illegal.

So in other words you can't own the land, but if you're doing something with or on the land nobody can interfere with that. And if you're doing science than you can plausibly claim an exclusion zone around your experiment.

We used to think there was lots of unused land on the moon so that conflicts would be easy to avoid, but the areas of interest are the polar regions and those are relatively small.