A Will and a digital publication have a lot in common, save one important difference; about the only statement an individual makes that must be publicly recognized as valuable, in their entire lifetime, are the last and final words of their Will. Regardless, the Will is still a testament to the attributes of a life well spent that is now more often read as a statement of assets assigned to the satisfaction of debt. So that dehumanization of the individual into the primary funds source for centralized power, that has left only the top echelon of estates with a Will that has anything in it, leaves the average Will about as valuable as a blog posting is.
Now, though, with the capabilities of technology bringing descriptive intelligence toward tracking the provenance of possessions, a testament that values attributes over residual wealth is on the horizon for validating Wills on the content level. Generally speaking, this means that planning to create intellectual properties to leave in a Will rehumanizes the entire state of the estate, and this approach affects digital properties directly.
Traditionally, art work in the possession of the artist that created it is intellectual property until it is sold and evaluated as a collector's asset.
In this centralized economy's way of seeing creativity the work of the craftsman, scholar, artist, inventor, writer, composer and other innovators are considered intangible until “commercialized”, when they can be evaluated as commodities.
In the late 1990's the struggling artists of the 1950's were leaving estates that were as ignorant of the value they held as the present world is of the potential held in the creative content that spans the Internet.
The Metropolitan Museum formed a committee of artists and supplied access to professionals at that time. It is their observations that come closest to what this “filler” following the works that can be read about in http://www.greatknot.com/2.html continues to use as a topic here, as Steemit is used to supply the 150 Woodstock'94 tag Steemitimages for populating https://www.facebook.com/greatknot for the present art work I am building for my estate.
