الميراث الرقمي: المفهوم والتحديات القانونية

Abstract

We live in a digital age where human beings are overwhelmed with digital devices and digital applications. These digital instruments change the concept of time and place, and introduce new patterns of conduct, culture and transactions. Moreover, these digital devices and applications present real challenges to the traditional concepts in general and to legal concepts in particular. Among these challenges is the legal status of digital accounts used by users after their death. What will happen to the users email accounts, blogs, social media accounts, and other digital accounts for trading online and their digital contents and assets after their death? Will it be inherited by their heirs or be deleted. These issues raise many legal questions that need to be answered by legislators within the legal framework of the human right to privacy and property and the rules of inheritance. The concept of digital inheritance and its legal aspects will be the topic of this article in order to bring this issue to the attention of the legislator so as to regulate digital inheritance for the interest of our human rights, and for the enhancement of trust in digital instruments.