Patrimônio digital: entre a intimidade e a indivisibilidade da herança

Abstract

Contemporary society deals with a revolution of communication and its manifestations through technology. Digital environment has become an extension of concrete reality, allowing access to a wide range of content, global social networks, electronic appliances and internet integrated devices. According to this expanding growth, personal drives have been built into virtuality and are essential personal parts of most individuals. Beyond those personal data clusters, thousands have started a work of content creation and specific professional dialogues, then, updating ways of dealing with digital universe. With the uprise of these juridical relations based on social networks expositions and content sharing, some new problematic discussion regarding Succession Law has emerged. Affectively or financially talking, it is pretty controversial the destination of social network registrations concern. Even with the density of heritage, these platforms carry intimate data of the dead ones. Therefore, a conflict between the warranties of rights related to heritage and the protection of personality is clear according to Brazilian Law. Throughout an exploratory research using bibliography and applying hypothetical deductive methodology(pesquisar como se escreve método dedutivo-indutivo). Thus, this manuscript is intended to reach a reasonable analysis of digital heritage problematic and the destination of the dead individuals network registrations based on principles related to the warranties of heritage and personality rights of this not anymore existent human being.