Experts are watching the case closely as the burgeoning drone industry, fuelled both by hobbyists and commercial operators, highlights the lack of regulation governing lower altitude air space not just in the United States but globally. I didn't know who was operating the drone or for what purpose," Merideth told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. Mackler estimates about a drone a month is shot down in the United States as residents grapple with the legal confusion about what constitutes their property and their rights. Boggs' lawyer Mackler said the case is not about payment for the damaged drone but about carving legally clear boundaries between unregulated lower air space and personal property. The most important case to define these principles in the United States involved the health of a farmer's chickens.

Source: The Star September 22, 2016 10:07 UTC