A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF INTERNATIONAL LEGAL NORMS REGARDING THE INHERITANCE OF DIGITAL PROPERTY
Keywords:
digital inheritance, digital assets, cross-border inheritance, cryptocurrency, intellectual property, digital wills, comparative legal analysis, international coordination, privacy rights.Abstract
The concept of digital property is becoming increasingly important in the legal system today. From social media accounts, cryptocurrencies, and crypto assets to digital libraries and intellectual property rights, this type of property is considered as legally significant objects. The problems associated with the inheritance of this property after a person’s death and determining its primary owner have become an important issue in the legal sphere today. This article analyzes and examines the comparative legislation of a number of countries related to the recognition of digital objects as property and their inheritance. The fact that different jurisdictions, formed by different legal traditions and levels of technological infrastructure, have their own systems complicates the creation of a clear universal model. The article compares this issue from the point of view of theoretical and private legislation, and explains the concept of several digital properties.
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