Yes. A debtor's email, drives, documents and code are estate property, and a copy licence is a use of that property outside the ordinary course: notice and a hearing under 11 U.S.C. 363(b). The estate keeps the originals and every record the case needs.
Why it is estate property
Section 541 brings every legal and equitable interest of the debtor into the estate, and that includes the work product its staff created: internal mail, drawings, quotes, tickets, specifications, code. The estate can license a copy of what the debtor owned. It cannot license what the debtor only held, such as a customer's files or a contractor's work the contract left with the contractor.
Where personal data narrows the scope
11 U.S.C. 363(b)(1) bars a sale or lease of personally identifiable information that the debtor's own privacy policy prohibited transferring, unless the transfer is consistent with that policy or the court approves it after a consumer privacy ombudsman is appointed under section 332. Most business records are not consumer data at all. Where they are, we scope the licence to exclude them rather than ask the court to stretch.
How it fits a case already running
A licence runs beside a 363 sale, inside a plan, or on its own motion. Nothing is taken into our possession that the estate must retain, so it does not compete with the sale of the operating assets. Proceeds go to the estate, the trustee or the payee the order names.
Refused whatever the estate
Substance use and behavioral health treatment records under 42 CFR Part 2, HIV records, medical and clinical records about any person, privileged client files, classified or export-controlled material, and anything under a litigation hold.
What a trustee sends first
The debtor's name, peak headcount, the years the records cover and the systems they sit in. That is enough for a free estimate in a few business days, before any data room or NDA.