I talk a lot about digital assets; I personally think that most people have not adequately considered what will become of their online selves on their deaths, and very few service providers have even begun to think about their users dying, let alone what will happen...
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More on passing digital assets
I just returned yesterday from ABA Techshow, which is a big conference every year in Chicago on legal technology and practice management. In light of the tech focus of that week, I thought I would post something tech-related today: New Hampshire has proposed a bill...
Digital asset laws
I have written before about the difficulties with passing on and preserving (or taking down) digital assets. Gerry Beyer at the Wills, Trusts and Estates Prof Blog recently posted an article about a bill that passed in Virginia regarding digital assets. It has passed...
Dying digitally
I am a big fan of the show Q on CBC Radio One. I listen daily (usually to the podcast), and often find interesting bits of information to use in other areas of my life. A few months ago, I heard Jian Ghomeshi interview Adele McAlear, creator of the site Death and...
Young, no kids, no assets: why do I need a will?
Historically, I have generally been of the view that you start needing a will when you have assets or dependants. So here is the question: what, exactly, constitutes having assets? Most of us think of assets as being a house, a car, maybe some investments. However,...
How to bequeath your electronic bills
Two weeks ago, I blogged about passing on your digital music files. Here's another conundrum: how do you pass on access to your online bills, banking, tax filings, and other digital "documents"? According to this article on SmartMoney, there are very few provisions...
The rabbit hole of digital ownership
My friend Sean Bawden read this article the other day and posed this question to me: what happens to your iTunes library when you die? I have written before about digital assets (here and here). Most of that information, however, is about social networking and other...