What is a virtual asset?

This expression comprises various types of virtual property and digital data but these ones are intangible assets as opposed to tangible assets. However, the Civil Code of Québec establishes the applicable rules for both tangible and intangible assets and the two types of assets are subject to the same rules.

With the phenomenal growth of the Web of which the users took control, almost everyone now has a virtual asset.

There are at first the email accounts, the personal Web pages as well as the business Web pages if you are an entrepreneur or self-employed, the blogs or e-notebooks, the social networks as well as all the files, even audio and video, that you put on the Web. Then there is the remotely storage and cloud storage of your digital data.

Regarding these virtual assets if the account with a service provider is paid, you probably agreed to a contract with this provider and you will also have to respect the Terms of Use fixed by the latter. If the account is supplied free of charge by a provider, then you have accepted its Terms of Use (this is what we often call the "contract by click") and you will have to respect these.

To these virtual assets, are connected the IDs (also known as the user name), access codes and passwords for each of the accounts that a person has.

Also, we find there all the documents that you have attached to your sending transmitted through email accounts, including audio and video documents, all the memories, messages and pictures that you posted on the social networks on which you are registered or of which you are a member.