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When you die, your social media presence lives on
he Uniform Law Commission recently approved a study committee on fiduciary power and authority to access digital property and online accounts during incapacity and after death.
Lawmakers have been slow to enact legislation related to digital property after death, and social media companies have relied on terms of service to guide them.
“We have shifted away from letters in a shoe boxes to email messages and Facebook. There is a lot more traceable communication floating around.”
It’s hard to tell the impact of the five state laws on online property post-death since the laws have hardly been utilized.
In 2005, Connecticut was the first to establish a digital assets law.
Facebook’s terms of service say it will not issue login and password information to family members of a person who has died. A family member can contact Facebook and request the dead person’s profile be taken down or turned into a memorial page.
Gmail and Hotmail will mail the estate holder a CD with the decedent’s account information, after the beneficiary of the estate sends the required information.
“There is a crying need for a uniform law that would grant a unified way of addressing the issue throughout the country,”
La publication fait état de la problématique émergente liée à la gestion légale des propriétés intellectuelles virtuelles (comptes courriels, réseaux sociaux, sites de partage de photos, etc.) après la mort de l'usager. Cinq états États-Uniens ont mis des lois en place à ce jour.
L'auteur de ce texte est Alissa Skelton. L'article a été publié le 26 janvier 2012, à 1700.