Jusletter IT

Transferability of Digital Assets in Case of Death

  • Autor/Autorin: Paweł Szulewski
  • Kategorie: Beiträge
  • Region: Polen
  • Rechtsgebiete: E-Commerce
  • Sammlung: Tagungsband IRIS 2015, Top 10 – Peer Reviewed Jury LexisNexis Best Paper Award des IRIS2015
  • Zitiervorschlag: Paweł Szulewski, Transferability of Digital Assets in Case of Death, in: Jusletter IT 26. Februar 2015
Constant and rapid development of the Internet, moving human activities from the real world to the digital one and following its impact on human behavior and culture generates a lot of legal questions and dilemmas. One of them is transferability of digital assets in case of death. In this paper the author will search answer to the question what happens to digital assets after the death of their users. It will be also attempted to examine the legal understanding and give a broad overview of the transferability of digital assets in case of death.

Table of contents

  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Digital Assets
  • 2.1. Definition and types of Digital Assets
  • 2.2. Value of Digital Assets
  • 3. Digital Assets in case of death
  • 3.1. General overview
  • 3.2. Arguments for transferability
  • 3.3. Arguments against transferability
  • 4. Transferability of Digital Assets
  • 4.1. General overview
  • 4.2. Contract Law
  • 4.3. Succession Law
  • 4.4. Copyright Law
  • 4.5. Data Protection Law
  • 5. Conclusions and recommendations

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