Dijital miras (digital inheritance)

Sahin Sengul, E ORCID: 0000-0002-4741-2171 (2022) 'Dijital miras (digital inheritance).' In: Antalya, O.G, ed. Türk medeni hukuk reformunun 95. yili sempozyumu. Legal, Istanbul, pp. 165-188. ISBN 9786053159827

Abstract

What happens to the assets that are stored electronically and found only in digital form when the user dies is a topical issue. The question is whether the digital information belonging to the deceased’s, i.e. ‘digital inheritance’, will be passed on to the heirs or not. Although in the globalising world the content of digital information may change from day to day, it is currently acknowledged that digital information may include data in cloud computing (documents, videos, photos), information stored on online platforms such as Google, Facebook, Uber, e-mails and social media accounts. Digital assets are discussed from the perspectives of property law, wills and succession, intellectual property, data protection, consumer law and contract law. That said, this article discusses whether digital information, which is not in a physical form by its nature and sometimes does not have any economic value, is inheritable property in Turkish inheritance law.

Item Type:	Book Chapter or Section
Note:	Symposium proceedings written in Turkish with the title translated into English as "Symposium of the 95th year of Turkish civil law reform".
Keywords:	digital information, digital inheritance, the principle of universal succession
Subjects:	K Law > K Law (General)
Divisions:	Bath Business School
Date Deposited:	26 Mar 2025 18:51
Last Modified:	26 Mar 2025 18:52
URI / Page ID:	https://researchspace.bathspa.ac.uk/id/eprint/16666

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