ABSTRACT
This article analyzes the concept and legal nature of social media accounts to explore whether these can become the object of fiduciary management. It examines the essence of a social media account and reveals the possibility of equating it to a kind of property. The article focuses on the possibility of inheriting a social media account. This takes into account approaches in various countries to the problem of determination of the post-mortem fate of digital assets, which shows a unified tendency to consider social media accounts as part of the estate transferred to the heir. The legal requirements on fiduciary management of a social media account considering its specifications are revealed.
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Kateryna Nekit, Fiduciary management of a social media account, Trusts and Trustees, https://doi.org/10.1093/tandt/ttaa016. Published: 7 April 2020.
First posted 2020-04-12 06:29:04
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