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Monthly Archives: July 2010
Estate Planning for Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, and Other Social Networking Accounts
Social networking sites such as MySpace, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and similar sites enable individuals to communicate and interact easily. In a recent survey of U.S. adults who use social networking accounts, 28% use social networking site to promote themselves or … Continue reading
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Tagged death, decedent, died, digital property, estate planning, facebook, incapacity, jim lamm, myspace, passwords, social networking, twitter
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Estate Planning and Digital Music
When dealing with a person’s incapacity or death, the family members and fiduciaries should consider the value of the person’s digital intellectual property. If the person was a musician, family members and fiduciaries should review music publishing contracts regarding digital … Continue reading
Posted in Intellectual Property Rights
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Estate Planning and Digital Publishing Rights for Authors
When dealing with a person’s incapacity or death, the family members and fiduciaries should consider the value of the person’s digital intellectual property. If the person was an author, family members and fiduciaries should review book publishing contracts regarding digital … Continue reading
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Tagged author, death, decedent, died, digital property, digital publishing, estate planning, incapacity, intellectual property, jim lamm
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Estate Planning for Digital Intellectual Property Rights
There can be significant value in the intellectual property rights attached to pictures, music, movies, literary works, Web pages, computer code, and other creative works existing as digital property. According to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, intellectual property in … Continue reading
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New IRS Reporting for Certain Online Sellers Starts in 2011
Income tax issues related to a person’s online sales accounts are important to consider, especially for fiduciaries and family members dealing with the person’s incapacity or death. The IRS has had trouble tracking income received from online sales, but new … Continue reading
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Tagged accounts, amazon, craigslist, ebay, irs, jim lamm, online sales, reporting
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Estate Planning for eBay and Other Online Sales Accounts
Whether a person runs an online sales business or just sells an occasional personal item, online sales may be in process when the person becomes incapacitated or dies. A good place to start is to monitor the person’s e–mail accounts … Continue reading
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Accessing a Decedent’s Yahoo! Mail Account
If a family member or fiduciary would like to access a deceased person’s Yahoo! Mail account (Yahoo!’s free Web–based e–mail service), hopefully, the person planned ahead and left the account username and password. If not, it may be possible to … Continue reading
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Tagged accounts, death, decedent, died, digital property, e-mail, estate planning, incapacity, jim lamm, passwords, yahoo!
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Accessing a Decedent’s Hotmail Account
If a family member or fiduciary would like to access a deceased person’s Hotmail account (Microsoft’s free Web–based e–mail service, also known as Microsoft Windows Live Hotmail), hopefully, the person planned ahead and left the account username and password. If … Continue reading
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Accessing a Decedent’s Gmail Account
If a family member or fiduciary would like to access a deceased person’s Gmail account (Google’s free Web–based e–mail service), hopefully, the person planned ahead and left the account username and password. If not, it may be possible to access … Continue reading
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