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逝者数字遗产中情感价值的继承权扩张路径

Path to the Expansion of Inheritance Rights Concerning the Emotional Value of the Deceased’s Digital Heritage

Progress in Social Sciences / 2025,7(12): 969-975 / 2025-12-23 14 7

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• Authors: 诸宁琦 莫云清
• Information:

  上海政法学院，上海

• Keywords:
  Digital heritage; Emotional value; Inheritance right; Personal information
  数字遗产; 情感价值; 继承权; 个人信息
• Abstract: With the in-depth development of the digital age, digital heritage that bears emotional memories and personal traces （such as social media accounts, chat histories, and digital images） has increasingly become a practical challenge in the field of inheritance. However, China’s current legal system lacks clear regulations on the inheritance of the emotional value of such digital heritage. Taking the “property-centered” definition of heritage in Article 1122 of the Civil Code and the application dilemmas of the referential norms for virtual property in Article 127 as the starting point, this study combs through the judicial discrepancies in the inheritance of digital heritage in judicial practice, and reveals the fundamental challenges posed by the personal attribute and heterogeneity of digital heritage to the traditional inheritance system. After clarifying the jurisprudential basis of personal rights, which regards the emotional value of digital heritage as an extension of “digital personality”, this study constructs a threefold inheritance path from the perspective of interpretive theory: consolidating the jurisprudential basis through the protection of the deceased’s personal information rights and interests; conducting a teleological expansion of the concept of “property” to subsume the carriers of emotional value; and establishing classified inheritance rules while introducing a system of professional digital heritage administrators. The purpose of this study is to overcome the legal obstacles in the inheritance of the emotional value of digital heritage, balance the dignity of the deceased, the emotional needs of the living, and the privacy protection of third parties, and provide theoretical support and practical guidance for the improvement of the inheritance system in the digital age. 随着数字时代的纵深发展，承载情感记忆与人格痕迹的数字遗产（如社交账户、聊天记录、数字影像等）日益成为继承领域的现实挑战，而我国现行法律对其情感价值的继承缺乏明确规制。以《民法典》第一千一百二十二条“财产中心主义”遗产界定与第一百二十七条虚拟财产引致规范的适用困境为切入点，梳理了司法实践中数字遗产继承的裁判分歧，揭示了数字遗产的人格属性与异质性对传统继承制度的根本挑战。在明确数字遗产情感价值作为“数字人格”延伸的人格权法理基础后，从解释论视角构建了三重继承路径：以死者个人信息权益保护夯实法理依据，对“财产”概念进行目的性扩张以涵摄情感价值载体，建立类型化继承规则并引入专业数字遗产管理人制度。研究旨在破解数字遗产情感价值继承的法律障碍，平衡逝者尊严、生者情感需求与第三方隐私保护，为数字时代继承制度的完善提供理论支撑与实践指引。
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.35534/pss.0712164 (registering DOI)
• Cite: 诸宁琦，莫云清．逝者数字遗产中情感价值的继承权扩张路径［J］．社会科学进展，2025，7（12）：969-975.