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The digital estate
Drachovská, Karolína ; Elischer, David (advisor) ; Dvořák, Jan (referee)
The digital estate Abstract More and more social relations are moving online and, just as technology is evolving, the law must also respond to new challenges. One of such challenges, that builds on the massive advances in the online world, is digital inheritance. Therefore, as a focal point of the whole thesis, I ask what happens to digital assets, i.e. the values that each of us creates in our online activities, in the event of our death. Czech law does not contain any special provisions for the inheritance of digital assets. Therefore, succession depends on the relevant provisions under which we assess succession mortis causa today. The choice of a particular legal rule depends on the subject matter of the digital estate. The legislation at the time does not even contain a legal definition of the term of digital estate (digital inheritance). In general, this term can be understood as all digitally stored data that may be part of the testator's sphere of legal disposition. The scope of this term is therefore filled by a whole range of values of different nature. Therefore, I distinguish three groups of digital assets for which common rules of inheritance can be defined. I devote the first and most extensive section to the inheritance of internet accounts intended for communication (specifically, e-mail...
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