The place of Digital inheritance assets in Iranian law

Abstract

The realm of digital property is a new area in the world of technology that must be addressed in different fields, especially law. In our country, the legislator has not yet provided an explicit text regarding the Digital inheritance property. In addition, like intellectual property rights, although digital property is immaterial, they will have a material effect, including patent rights and author's rights, which are recognized in Iranian law; like intellectual property, virtual properties are not physically tangible, but they have the same financial effects and can be classified as property and inheritance. The findings indicate that so far, the Digital inheritance assets have not yet penetrated Iran's laws, and the internal laws in this regard have not been legislated, despite the need and necessity due to the widespread use of these properties, there was no change in the recognition of digital assets. In this case, do digital properties have a place in Iran's law to be recognized as property or not? The Vice President of New Technologies of the Central Bank published a draft of the requirements and regulations in the field of cryptocurrencies in February 2017, and the bill that was recently submitted to the parliament is an attempt to the legal framework and define the rules of digital property in property can be considered with indulgence. According to the general rules governing material property, the digital property can also be considered as part of the property, be inherited, and at the same time be demanded, divided, and traded. The research method in this article is descriptive-analytical.

Keywords

• assets
• property
• digital heritage
• iranian law