Law Matters | IN Content Law

Preliminary thoughts, all. Of course, IRL categorisation isn't as neat. An interesting question which seems to be asked increasingly often is: What happens to your digital assets after you die?  The question itself though seems to be inadequate. Precisely what digital assets is one talking about? Are the assets somehow governed by contracts? If the contracts are standard form, such as for example, in relation to content one uploads on a SocMed site before one's death —lawyerly 'overclarification', I just realised; clearly, one won't upload anything post-mortem although it may be possible to publish content post-mortem— do the terms of the agreement govern what would happen to the content and how access to the content would be handled? Or in a country like India, with contracts often being under foreign laws, could such standard forms be challenged if necessary possibly for being unconscionable or against public policy if the terms involved are in fact unfair...