# Digital Replica to Rights-Bearing Subject **Domain:** Digital Afterlife / Legal Transition / Personhood **Doc Type:** Canonical Concept **Maturity:** Developed **Evidence / Concept Status:** Major unresolved transition ## Definition **Digital Replica to Rights-Bearing Subject** is the point at which an object initially governed as a likeness, work, model, or property might acquire independent agency or morally relevant interests sufficient to trigger rights of its own. ## Continuity Significance It is where right-holder control may collide with the emerging subject's autonomy. ## Existing Architecture / Evidence Digital-replica law protects humans and estates; AI personhood scholarship debates independent legal status. ## Evidentiary Boundary / Red-Team Note No current digital-replica statute automatically recognizes this transition. ## Related Ontology [[wiki/Digital Replica|Digital Replica]] · [[wiki/Rights-Bearing Computational Subject|Rights-Bearing Computational Subject]] · [[wiki/Dual Constitution of AI|Dual Constitution of AI]] · [[wiki/Digital Replica Property Framing|Digital Replica Property Framing]] <!-- 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 -->