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Probate

Oct. 23, 2013

The disposition of digital assets upon death

It is amazing how many digital assets people have which they do not consider to be "assets." By Susan J. Cooley and Melissa A. Passman


By Susan J. Cooley and Melissa A. Passman


"A digital asset is any item of text or media that has been formatted into a binary source that includes the right to use it. A digital file without the right to use it is not an asset. Digital assets are categorized in three major groups which may be defined as textual content (digital assets), images (media assets), and multimedia (media assets)." Van Niekerk, A.J. 2006.


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