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IP Heirlooms – Testamentary Assignment of Digital Contents

Posted on Sep 25, 2012

IP Heirlooms – Testamentary Assignment of Digital Contents

Recent media reports raised several questions about the transfer of so-called digital “property” by means of a testamentary bequest. These digital works include e-books, songs, videos, movies, applications and other forms of intellectual expression recorded in digital format and distributed to end-users by means of web traders such as Kalahari, Amazon and Apple iTunes. According to these reports, individuals who sought to provide for the transfer of their personal collections of digital works after their death found that the law does not specifically provide for such transfer of...

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