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Preparing for the 'Digital Afterlife'

By Bruce Carton

UsefulArts.us raised an interesting question earlier this week: How should the "digital afterlife" work, and what do we need to be doing now to make sure our intentions are carried out? People invest a great deal of time, energy and money in their "digital selves," Dave Wieneke observes, and he says that he and his lawyer friends "have always wondered about digital inheritance, and if businesses would rise up to provide escrow services for endowing our digital selves. Who will be your digital executor?" For instance, if you have created something online that you think your kids or perhaps others will value, why not "endow" it to keep it running after you are gone? As someone who has put a great deal of effort into creating something online that I think has value, I too have occasionally wondered what would become of it if I was no longer around. I can barely remember all of the passwords and accounts I have set up to support my website, and there is certainly nobody else who would have all of the information necessary to either keep it going or properly wind it down. So what would happen to your blog or other...

Full post as published by Legal Blog Watch on June 18, 2010 (boomark / email).