A method for trading assets on an exchange and a method for creating securities in said assets. The assets selected from the group consisting of art work, intellectual property rights, real estate property rights, oil rights, mineral rights, and water rights. The method includes, in part, the following steps : establishing a medium for selling the assets such as the internet; assessing the value of the assets; dividing the assets into shares; selling the shares through the medium; determining the shareholder controlling the rights in the asset; the controlling shareholder distributing dividends to the other shareholders in proportion to the amount of shares held by the shareholder; periodically ascertaining which shareholder has a majority of the shares; allowing the majority shareholder to demand transfer of control and/or possession of the asset.