# 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/
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## 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.
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