Formation of the Concept of Inheritance of Accounts (Accounts) in Social Networks in the Russian Federation

Relevance. In the conditions of active informatization and digitalization, the number of operating information systems used by the user to meet various cultural and (or) economic needs increases, the value of accounts, a technological solution that allows accumulating information and data in a certain information system increases. The author considers the problems of the possibility of inheritance of accounts in information systems, methods of their solutions. The concept of considering an account as a digital asset is proposed – a new object of civil turnover, an object of inheritance.

The purpose of the work is to develop the concept of inheritance of accounts (accounts) in social networks in the Russian Federation, to determine their legal nature.

Objectives: to analyze the current legislation and judicial practice of the Russian Federation in the field of legal regulation of accounts (accounts), their inheritance, to investigate the doctrine of private law and to form the concept of inheritance of accounts (accounts) in social networks in the Russian Federation.

Methodology. In the process of working on the research, general scientific research methods and methods inherent in modern private law science were used. We are talking about the use of methods of analysis and synthesis of information, data interpretation. The analysis of the current legislation in the field of commercial turnover of information is made.

Results. The absence of a regulatory framework revealing the legal nature of accounts (accounts), their place in the system of objects of civil turnover is determined. The economic significance of the account (account) has been determined for a specific user of the social network and (or) his heirs. The legal problem of inheritance of accounts (accounts) is indicated.

Conclusion. The conducted research provides the basis for an unambiguous conclusion about the absence of the necessary legal mechanisms for the inheritance of accounts (accounts), the absence of a normative definition of the legal essence of this phenomenon. The necessity of implementing the legal modernization of civil legislation in the context of the actualization of the problem of account inheritance is substantiated.

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