The Legal Protection Status and Optimization Path of Network Virtual Property Inheritance Right

Yuanhui Li

doi:10.70393/616a736d.333433

OPEN ACCESS |Research Article ||15 January 2026

The Legal Protection Status and Optimization Path of Network Virtual Property Inheritance Right

Yuanhui Li

Xinjiang Normal University

367279998@qq.com

Xinjiang Normal University, School of Political Science and law, Xinjiang, Urumqi 830017.

* Corresponding Author¹: Yuanhui Li, E-Mail: 367279998@qq.com

Publication

Accepted 2025 November 18 ; Published 2026 January 15

Academic Journal of Sociology and Management, 2026, 4(1), 3005-5040.

Abstract

In the Internet era, the network shapes a new form of civil life and promotes the formation of network virtual property. Network virtual property is a new type of property with deep integration of human life and the Internet, which has profound economic value and social value. In response to the protection of network virtual property, Article 127 of the Civil Code clearly stipulates network virtual property. However, there are few provisions on network virtual property, which makes it difficult to solve the legal problems derived from judicial practice. The inheritance right of network virtual property is a concrete manifestation of it. In view of the particularity of network virtual property, combined with the problems in judicial practice in China, there are some difficulties in the protection of virtual property inheritance in China, such as imperfect legislative protection, difficulty in evaluating value and conflict between inheritance right and privacy right. Therefore, the protection of network virtualization in China needs to be improved. Based on this, our country should combine the dilemma of judicial practice, improve the relevant laws and regulations, so that the virtual property inheritance rights can be realized according to the law; set up third-party institutions to clarify the obligations of operators; clarify the inheritance procedure of virtual property and protect the privacy of users.

Keywords

Network Virtual Property , Inheritance , Legal Protection .

Metadata

DOI:

10.70393/616a736d.333433

ARK:

ark:/40704/AJSM.v4n1a04

Pages: 22-29

References: 12

Disciplines: Jurisprudence

Subjects: Constitutional Law

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Li, Y. (2026). The legal protection status and optimization path of network virtual property inheritance right. Academic Journal of Sociology and Management, 4(1), 22-29. https://doi.org/10.70393/616a736d.333433

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The authors thank the editor and anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments and valuable suggestions.

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