Comments on: Managing your digital estate http://paulwallbank.com/2012/06/20/managing-your-digital-estate/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=managing-your-digital-estate Society and business in the 21st Century Thu, 21 Jun 2012 06:10:08 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.8.3 By: ProCurate | Clyde Street http://paulwallbank.com/2012/06/20/managing-your-digital-estate/comment-page-1/#comment-25519 Wed, 20 Jun 2012 03:55:27 +0000 http://paulwallbank.com/?p=4448#comment-25519 […] after reading Deanna’s post a tweet led me to Paul Wallbank’s post about Managing your digital estate. He observes that: Dealing with the passing of a loved one is always difficult but today we have an […]

]]> By: Chris http://paulwallbank.com/2012/06/20/managing-your-digital-estate/comment-page-1/#comment-25511 Wed, 20 Jun 2012 00:06:56 +0000 http://paulwallbank.com/?p=4448#comment-25511 Thanks for raising the issue Paul. This is something we will all face at one time or another. It will be a long time before this is on the family solicitor’s checklist of things to attend to when resolving the estate. How will she handle a bequest of parts of an iTunes collection to various family members?

Similar issues arise for businesses if the person responsible for social dies. The difference in that case is the account must be maintained not memorialised. How much more complicated could it get if the deceased person is an outside resource?

This issue is going to fester for some time.

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