Digital Inheritance
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1. A method of enabling inheritance of a digital content item, comprising:
- acquiring an inheritance license for an encrypted digital content item, the inheritance license having operations that are allowed to be performed on the content item after the death of its proprietor; and
accessing a death certificate of the proprietor of said encrypted content item, wherein authorization is given to perform at least a subset of the operations, specified in the inheritance license, on the encrypted content item.
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a method and a device of enabling inheritance of a digital content item. There is provided a method and a device by which inheritance of a digital content item is enabled by means of acquiring an inheritance license for an encrypted digital content item. The inheritance license specifies operations that are allowed to be performed on the content item after the death of its proprietor. Further, a death certificate of the proprietor of the encrypted content item is accessed, wherein authorization is given to perform at least a subset of the operations specified in the inheritance license on the encrypted content item.
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1. A method of enabling inheritance of a digital content item, comprising:
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acquiring an inheritance license for an encrypted digital content item, the inheritance license having operations that are allowed to be performed on the content item after the death of its proprietor; and accessing a death certificate of the proprietor of said encrypted content item, wherein authorization is given to perform at least a subset of the operations, specified in the inheritance license, on the encrypted content item. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21)
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22. A device for enabling inheritance of a digital content item, comprising:
means for acquiring an inheritance license for an encrypted digital content item, wherein the inheritance license specifies operations that are allowed to be performed on the content item after the death of its proprietor, the means accessing a death certificate of the proprietor of said encrypted content item, and wherein authorization is given to perform at least a subset of the operations specified in the inheritance license on the encrypted content item. - View Dependent Claims (23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42)
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