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Re:The slow collapse of Amazon’s drone delivery dream by FuriouslyAdrift on Thursday August 05, 2021 @08:22AM (#28072689)
In the US at least, I beleive the current legal definition is 500 ft in uncongested areas and 1000 ft elsewhere. Above that is considered "public highway" in federal law.

US v. Causby is the only ruling I could find (that was 83 ft).https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/328/256/

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Re:The slow collapse of Amazon’s drone delivery dream by ghaff on Thursday August 05, 2021 @09:33AM (#28073492)
I think there may have been one or two other--possibly state level--cases. It's pretty ambiguous but loose consensus seems to be that you probably have property rights up to 400-500 feet. On rural land, a drone at 50 feet would seem to be fair game for skeet practice.
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