title: Inheritance of social media accounts in Germany and Sweden
metadata.name: dc.contributor.author
metadata.value: Abrosimova, Ekaterina A.
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metadata.name: dc.contributor.author
metadata.value: Vlasenko, Ellina V.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2022-09-20T19:08:06Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2022-09-20T19:08:06Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2022-06
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Abrosimova, Ekaterina A., Ellina V. Vlasenko. 2022. “Inheritance of social media accounts in Germany and Sweden”. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Law 2: 452–468.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu14.2022.210
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.uri
metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/37851
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The question how the legal framework may cover Internet relations is not new and has been
  discussed at least since the end of the 20th century. But over the past decade and a half, the
  electronic environment has been developing, while classification and regulation of new institutions
  raise some complexities. One of them is social media accounts. Their legal status as
  objects of rights is unclear since such accounts are a set of rights and relationships laying at
  the intersection of different institutions and law branches such as contractual relationships,
  copyright for posts and photos, personal correspondence, and privacy. At the same time,
  commercialization of social media accounts is gaining momentum, which turns them into
  an “electronic enterprise”. The purpose of this research is to identify order of inheritance of
  accounts in Sweden and Germany. These legal systems are close to the Russian one, the results
  obtained may be used to improve Russian legislation. Moreover, the authors know the relevant
  foreign languages, which allows them to analyze the legislation in detail. The object of analysis
  is the relationships that arise in connection with the need to determine the legal fate of a
  user’s account after his death. The scope of inheritance relations is chosen because this issue
  has become increasingly common in law enforcement practice. Besides, the Federal Supreme
  court of Germany recently issued a controversial decision which might affect German law,
  other European legal systems, or the relevant elements of the content of user agreements. The
  authors use the comparative method, methods of analysis, synthesis, deduction, and induction. The authors’ conclusion is the issue is unsettled. The solution proposed by the German
  Federal Supreme court is imperfect. In the article there are also some comments on improving
  Russian regulation, taking into account the experience of the legal systems studied.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Law;Volume 13; Issue 2
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: digital property
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: digital accounts qualification
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: digital accounts inheritance
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: inheritance digitalization
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: memory clause
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Inheritance of social media accounts in Germany and Sweden
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.type
metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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