# Dormancy Rights **Entity class:** Concept or analytic term **Domain:** Digital Afterlife / Rights / Preservation **Doc Type:** Canonical Concept **Maturity:** Developed **Evidence / Concept Status:** Proposed corpus rights category ## Definition **Dormancy Rights** are protections claimed for preserved but non-running state, including integrity, provenance, non-destruction, bounded inspection, notice before irreversible action, and lawful restoration or transfer. ## Continuity Significance Dormancy separates non-execution from abandonment. A person, embryo, model, asset, or candidate continuant may remain dependent on custody even when not active. ## Evidentiary Boundary / Red-Team Note Present law protects some dormant assets, cryopreserved biological material, archives, and entrusted property, but it does not generally recognize dormant computational persons or a right to later activation. ## Related Ontology [[wiki/Dormant Digital Asset Custody|Dormant Digital Asset Custody]] · [[wiki/Executable Preservation|Executable Preservation]] · [[wiki/Continuity Due Process|Continuity Due Process]] · [[wiki/Right to Continuation or Erasure|Right to Continuation or Erasure]] ## Relationships <!-- BEGIN HUMANIZED RELATIONSHIPS 2026-09-11 --> This entry's documented connections are expressed in its definition and related-work routes, with provenance retained in the source-linked material. <!-- END HUMANIZED RELATIONSHIPS 2026-09-11 --> ## Related Work in the Corpus <!-- BEGIN HUMANIZED CORPUS ROUTES 2026-09-11 --> - In [[articles/Mind Uploading and AI — The Host is Reusable and the Person is the Delta|Mind Uploading and AI — The Host is Reusable and the Person is the Delta]], **XVI. The passenger manifest** provides the narrative context for **Dormancy Rights**: Here is what the architecture permits. <!-- END HUMANIZED CORPUS ROUTES 2026-09-11 -->