When you sign up for a website, you are agreeing to terms of license, so any ?assets? under that license fall under licensing rules, says Florida-based estate planning lawyer David Goldman.
If you have an iTunes account, and you purchase music through that account, when you die the license for that account expires. The same principle applies to Facebook or Twitter, so when you die the license to all the content generated on that account, technically, expires. So if people gain access to these accounts after the user has died, it could be a liability, Goldman says. Legally speaking, once someone passes, their licenses to all that media expires.
?If you have an iPhone, you?d have hundreds of dollars worth of apps or thousands of dollars worth of music. When you die those licenses expire,?
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If you have an iTunes account, and you purchase music through that account, when you die the license for that account expires. The same principle applies to Facebook or Twitter, so when you die the license to all the content generated on that account, technically, expires. So if people gain access to these accounts after the user has died, it could be a liability, Goldman says. Legally speaking, once someone passes, their licenses to all that media expires.
?If you have an iPhone, you?d have hundreds of dollars worth of apps or thousands of dollars worth of music. When you die those licenses expire,?
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