Even so, there are such things as salvage rights.

But when I asked for it back, he claimed salvage rights.

"My firm purchased salvage rights on the wreck from its insurers."

"Sure, if that means I have salvage rights, law of the sea."

He rambles on quite a bit about salvage rights and the rights of the individual.

Legal disputes do arise from the claiming of salvage rights.

My company has already got dibs-staked salvage rights, I mean, on this planet.

I've got a ship waiting to take me out and claim salvage rights, but I can't do it with him alive.

Could they be trying to scare the Federation away, so as to keep the salvage rights to themselves?

At the moment, Kes didn't care about the salvage rights or the dilithium.