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A Contractual Perspective on Succession of Digital Assets

Paweł Szulewski

Category of articles:

Scientific Articles

Region:

Poland, EU

Field of law:

Data Protection, Private law

Citation: Paweł Szulewski, A Contractual Perspective on Succession of Digital Assets, in: Jusletter IT 25-September-2015

This paper is an attempt to describe the transferability of digital assets in case of death from the contractual perspective. It presents the service providers’ approach to succession of digital assets based on examples of Facebook, Google and Yahoo!. It points out the relevant legislation gap in the European Union, presents some of non-legal solutions available in the Internet, and finally, it gives the reader a brief overview on the first legal act regulating succession of digital assets – U.S.’s Uniform Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act.

Table of contents

1. Introduction
2. Regulation of digital assets’ transferability by contract
- 2.1. General overview
- 2.2. Contract law
- 2.3. Service Provider’s specific approach
  - 2.3.1. Facebook
  - 2.3.2. Google
  - 2.3.3. Yahoo!
3. Developments concerning transferability of digital assets
- 3.1. Non-legal developments in the European Union
- 3.2. Digital Assets Act in the United States
4. Conclusions

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