[ggm]

It was a thin forest of hits in google btw. So, not a field which is well ploughed. So my assumption the domain is heritable is probably moot. But, what I really meant is that its an artifice which makes it significantly less likely an IPR licence through an email account falls fallow: The domain possession means my heirs can ensure the [e-mail] always responds, so they can do password recovery and ID checks through email to satisfy they "own" the account. Obviously if it falls back to real-world ID checks, they're hosed.

I didn't mean to imply what I do is intruding a legal mechanism to acquire IPR by transfer. The law says I bought exclusive use, for me and regards the MP3 licence to use as a thing which dies with me. The email chain is going to say "yep.. this mailbox responds when you ask for money" and so the issuing MP3 licence issuer is going to say "I see no interruption in service to the identity I apparently sold the IPR to" so whilst in law, I'm still breaking the law, in practice, I don't think people are going to know. Then, when the new owner subscribes to an 'all you can eat' MP3 service which scrapes the id3 info and says "your tunes are in me" the music will be re-identified, and I suspect their permanency will be enshrined through that agency, even if they terminate the rental agreement: most of the ones I used let you use a one-time bulk downloader to get back the tunes you uplifted by signature.

Its not [e-mail]. its a generic like [e-mail] or [e-mail] or [e-mail] btw.

(and I wish it was lhs.com)