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		<title>Digital Assets: A Clearer Definition</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 02:29:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Evan Carroll</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently we reviewed draft legislation for incorporating digital assets into estates law in North Carolina. In doing so, we questioned our working definition of digital assets, which created ambiguity between digital assets (the files) and digital accounts (access rights to files). The account/asset distinction is important, as it relates to requirements placed on service providers. <a href="http://www.digitalestateresource.com/2012/01/digital-assets-a-clearer-definition/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A Working Definition of Digital Assets.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2011 16:24:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Romano</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The phrase "digital asset" is being used, but we have yet to come to a legally-accepted definition. A simple definition is that a digital asset is content owned by an individual that is stored in digital form. But this may not be broad enough to encompass all the digital elements of an estate that have value. A more inclusive definition is that a digital asset is digitally stored content or an online account owned by an individual.

This article walks through this definition and highlights issues presented by restrictive ownership of online accounts, terms of service, and choice of law. <a href="http://www.digitalestateresource.com/2011/09/a-working-definition-of-digital-assets/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>All-electronic finances a powerful reason to plan for digital assets.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jul 2011 01:08:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Romano</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Treasury announced today that on January 1, 2012 it will end the sale of over-the-counter paper savings bonds. It's all digital from there on out. That's just one more reason to add digital assets and accounts to your client's estate plan. <a href="http://www.digitalestateresource.com/2011/07/all-electronic-finances-a-powerful-reason-to-plan-for-digital-assets/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>State Statute Empowers Executors to Conduct Digital Identities of Deceased</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jul 2011 04:31:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dazza Greenwood</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the lead-up to SXSW this year, in preparing to participate on a panel called "Your Dead, Your Data Isn't: What Happens Now", my fellow panelists and I spent considerable time discussing a new law that is truly a first in the US. House bill 2800, recently enacted into law in the state of Oklahoma, authorized the Executor or Administrator of an estate to conduct or terminate the social media and certain other digital accounts of the deceased. The accounts are a key aspect of the digital identities of the deceased, and the provisions of this statute raise many questions of law, commercial practice and public policy. <a href="http://www.digitalestateresource.com/2011/07/state-statute-empowers-executors-to-conduct-digital-identities-of-deceased/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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