In the network era, we enjoy efficiency and convenience. People in this vast virtual world create a huge amount of economic value and spiritual value. How to exist in the network space of wealth to our descendants in a stable handover is an important issue of this era. China's Civil Code reserves space for the object of the network virtual property to be incorporated into the inheritance system. Starting from the inheritability of network virtual property, this paper defines the legal attributes of network virtual property by examining foreign legislation, real cases and the main viewpoints of scholars, and then divides network virtual property into "carrier type" and "content type" according to the type classification. The former in principle belongs to the network operator, the latter in principle belongs to the user. At the same time, the value evaluation of network virtual property is also a difficult problem, and the network information department should take the lead to develop a value reference system of general significance. And the network virtual property has strong personal attributes, so its inheritance should fully respect the personal will of the user, and take some humanized ways to balance the relationship between property inheritance and privacy protection. Through the discussion of these important issues, we hope to provide some suggestions for the perfection of the legal system of the inheritance of virtual property.

Xu Yuyuan. Discussion on legal issues of inheritance of virtual property in network. International Journal of Frontiers in Sociology (2024), Vol. 6, Issue 3: 13-20. https://doi.org/10.25236/IJFS.2024.060303.

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