# Digital Replica **Domain:** Digital Afterlife / Identity / Synthetic Media **Doc Type:** Canonical Concept **Maturity:** Developed **Evidence / Concept Status:** Established legal-policy term ## Definition A **Digital Replica** is a machine-generated representation of an identifiable person's voice, visual likeness, or other identity attributes. ## Continuity Significance Replica law governs whether human-like outputs are protected identity, licensed representation, property-like rights, or something capable of becoming a more persistent agent. ## Existing Architecture / Evidence U.S. federal proposals and state laws regulate unauthorized AI-generated likenesses, including postmortem interests. ## Evidentiary Boundary / Red-Team Note Digital-replica rights generally protect the human right holder or estate; they do not confer rights on the replica itself. ## Cinematic Case [[wiki/The Congress (2013)|The Congress]] is the vault's foundational case for a reusable performance model that achieves representational persistence without establishing consciousness or person-level continuity. ## Related Ontology [[wiki/Posthumous Digital Replica|Posthumous Digital Replica]] · [[wiki/Digital Replica Property Framing|Digital Replica Property Framing]] · [[wiki/NO FAKES Act of 2026|NO FAKES Act of 2026]] · [[wiki/Digital Replica to Rights-Bearing Subject|Digital Replica to Rights-Bearing Subject]] · [[wiki/The Congress (2013)|The Congress]] ## Sources / Provenance - https://www.copyright.gov/legislation/ <!-- BEGIN DEEP TIME CONTINUITY INTERFACE --> ## Deep-Time Continuity Interface This node is audited through [[wiki/Deep Time Continuity|Deep Time Continuity]] for future control-surface conversion, ontological drift, succession, irreversibility, due process, and resource incidence. The backlink records analytical relevance; it does not establish continuity intent in the present rule or institution. <!-- END DEEP TIME CONTINUITY INTERFACE -->