Talk:Digital inheritance

4everb4
I deleted an external link to "https://www.4everb4.com/" since the website is using at least two of their three trust logos (TRUSTe and KPMG WebTrust) unauthorized. Checked: http://watchdog.truste.com/pvr.php?page=complaint and http://www.webtrust.org/overview-of-trust-services/index.aspx BenMoll (talk) 12:58, 10 February 2011 (UTC)BenMoll (13:58, 10. Feb. 2010 (CEST))

Digital collections not physically owned
This article should mention what happens (or more likely discussions on what might happen) to e.g. iTunes collections, software licenses (in relation to the recent AutoCad ruling) where it might be the case that you license rather then own your collection. --129.215.149.97 (talk) 14:03, 23 February 2011 (UTC)

Avantec (SecureSafe) taking influence on the article
I saw that the CloudSafe was deleted from the vendor list twice in a row, both edits were done from the same IP address. And both times SecureSafe was put into first place. I had a look at 194.191.40.100 and found it to be an Avantec IP. Avantec is a key investor into DSwiss. DSwiss runs Securesafe. They were knows as "DigitalInherit.com" before and changed their name recently to "SecureSafe". Now they remove links to CloudSafe. I guess people should carefully consider to use a service run by these people. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.54.131.136 (talk) 18:35, 19 September 2012 (UTC)

Digital estate
This article and Digital estate seem to be about the same topic. I'm wondering whether they should be merged. Any opinions on this? Tony Holkham (talk) 14:29, 3 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Fully agree. The Digital estate article was only describing its sense in relation to Digital inheritance, and neither article was even close to being long enough to justify forking into two separate articles. I therefore merged Digital estate into Digital inheritance. Mikael Häggström (talk) 07:38, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

Notability
Can we remove the notability tag from this article? — Jeraphine Gryphon (talk) 09:37, 19 March 2015 (UTC)


 * Agree. The article needs a lot of work, but I think the subject is notable.  Tony Holkham   (Talk)  09:41, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

Clarification
I am trying not to over-simplify this article, but it did need a lot of cutting and clarification. I'll be looking for references to what's left when I've finished, so any help welcome.  Tony Holkham   (Talk)  15:03, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

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Combine with Digital Will?
This article covers some of the same ground as Digital Will. That article mentions a Delaware law, “Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets and Digital Accounts Act” and its conflict with terms of service. In fact 28 states have such laws (summaries). Some companies' terms of service are briefly outlined in Death and the Internet. I don't have time to re-write, and I encourage others to. Numbersinstitute (talk) 19:41, 8 December 2017 (UTC)

Upcoming major update to article
Hi everyone, I'm currently working on some additions/updates to this article as part of a class assignment. The article could use some expansion, some editing, and more citations throughout, particularly from scholarly sources rather than news articles or blog posts. Here is a short bibliography of some sources I've found so far that I plan to incorporate into the article:


 * Dominicé, A. M., & Haux, D. H. (2020). The decision of the German federal court of justice against Facebook: Opportunity to define digital heritage? Santander Art and Culture Law Review, (2), 251-260. doi:10.4467/2450050XSNR.20.018.13021
 * Vučković, R. M., & Kanceljak, I. (2019). Does the right to use digital content affect our digital inheritance? EU and Comparative Law Issues and Challenges Series, 3, 724-746.
 * Kreiczer-Levy, S., & Donyets-Kedar, R. (2019). Better left forgotten: An argument against treating some social media and digital assets as inheritance in an era of platform power. Brooklyn Law Review, 84(3), 703-744.
 * Mikk, T., & Sein, K. (2018). Digital inheritance: Heirs’ right to claim access to online accounts under Estonian law. Juridica International, 27, 117-128. https://doi.org/10.12697/JI.2018.27.12
 * Anitei, A. (2017). Digital inheritance: Problems, cases and solutions. International Conference Education and Creativity for a Knowledge-Based Society, 32-39.
 * Brillo, D. P., & Escalona, N. C. (2015). Succession in the internet age: Dissecting the ambiguities of digital inheritance. Philippine Law Journal, 89(4), 835-864.
 * Banta, N. M. (2014). Inherit the cloud: The role of private contracts in distributing or deleting digital assets at death. Fordham Law Review, 83(2), 799-854.
 * Borden, M. (2014). Covering your digital assets: Why the stored communications act stands in the way of digital inheritance. Ohio State Law Journal, 75(2), 405-446.
 * Ferrante, R. E. (2013). The relationship between digital assets and their transference at death: It's complicated. Loyola Journal of Public Interest Law, 15(1), 37-62.
 * Sherry, K. (2012). What happens to our Facebook accounts when we die?: Probate versus policy and the fate of social-media assets postmortem. Pepperdine Law Review, 40(1), 185-250.

The sources discuss the legal backdrop for and implications of digital inheritance. I think drawing points from some of this law literature will add needed context and depth to the article. - Gp1791 (talk) 00:43, 8 October 2021 (UTC)

Wiki Education assignment: Digital Sociology
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