Qualification: Digital Assets and Digital Inheritance

Record: kaal:position:2026-08-08-138 · 2026-08-08

Digital Assets and Digital Inheritance states that digital inheritance by law or will can be limited by contract terms and constitutional privacy rights. This supplies succession-specific limits that qualify any uniform application of Kaal's property-style digital-object framework. The abstract does not identify which objects satisfy rivalry or resolve conflicts among license, service, confidentiality, and privacy rules.

Affirmed commentary position. This record extends a source-bound scholarly claim but is not a verbatim paper claim.

Holds when

The response is limited to the retrieved source proposition and mapped Kaal claim unless fuller source review supports a broader conclusion.
External evidence level: abstract indexed.
Mapping review tier: substantively reviewed abstract-level qualification.
Primary mapping confidence: 0.62.
The primary mapping cleared the automated ambiguity test; substantive scope remains review-bound.
Evidence is limited to an exact proposition in a Crossref-indexed abstract; full text was not reviewed.
No relationship is treated as external endorsement, citation, causation, or validation of a broader Kaal claim.
The source states that digital inheritance by law or will can be limited by contract terms and constitutional privacy rights. This supplies succession-specific limits that qualify any uniform application of Kaal's property-style digital-object framework, while it does not identify which digital objects satisfy rivalry or resolve conflicts among license, service, confidentiality, and privacy rules.

Current debate

Digital Assets and Digital Inheritance

Scholarly basis

kaal:claim:5886342-015
Furrer Andreas, Wulf A. Kaal, Stephan D. Meyer, Universal Digital Law Codex (UDLC) (2025). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5886342
Source PDF sha256: dc456a1ce2ea4a356dbcb35dc900ec36be94b8c9b6da4a2c8c268d6301f66359

Evidence and mapping

Evidence: abstract indexed
Review tier: substantively reviewed abstract-level qualification
Mapping confidence: 0.62
Mapping ambiguous: false

Topics

institutional-design historical-response scholarly-literature crossref

Provenance

Affirmed in kaal-review:2026-08-08:continuous-crossref-0011-remainder-0005-all-0022-reviewed-v1 on 2026-08-08. Review record.

Verify

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