Fork Rights - Bryant McGill

# Fork Rights **Entity class:** Concept or analytic term **Domain:** Rights / Copying / Divergence **Doc Type:** Canonical Concept Node **Maturity:** Evolving **Related:** [[Reconstructed Person]], [[Descent vs Derivation]], [[Successor Standing]], [[Rights]] --- ## Definition **Fork Rights** govern the claims and obligations that arise when one source state becomes multiple continuants capable of divergent experience. Forking creates a lineage problem, not a presumption that every branch remains one interchangeable asset. ## Core Provisions Each plausible subject requires independent standing, provenance access, protection against unconsented merge or deletion and a defined relationship to shared pre-fork assets and obligations. No source or sibling branch automatically owns the others or retains permanent authority to represent them. Shared memory can create overlapping responsibility for pre-fork acts while post-fork conduct belongs to the branch that performs it. Scarce resources may require allocation rules, but scarcity cannot be solved by declaring one branch authentic and every other branch disposable without an authorized basis. [[Halores]] is the central embodied case. [[Person of Interest S5E13 — return 0]] supplies the restoration-and-lineage case. Together they show that identical origin can coexist with rapidly changing interests. ## Key Insight **Forking multiplies claimants and governance questions; it does not multiply one owner's copies.** ## See Also [[Successor Standing]], [[Proof of Descent]], [[Continuity Evidence vs Continuity]], [[Authority–Identity Separation]], [[Dolores Abernathy]] ## Sources / Provenance - Derived from the vault's Westworld branching material and Person of Interest continuity arc.  ## 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.  ## Relationships  This entry is routed through [[collections/Consciousness Continuity|Consciousness Continuity]], [[collections/Neurotech|Neurotech]], and [[collections/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]]. Its source context is developed 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]] and [[articles/Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer|Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer]]. Status-qualified source edges are preserved in the terminal Research Edges section. ### Governance, authority, and safeguards - **Fork Rights** is associated with multiple active descendants. ### Key Relationships - The source corpus interprets the relationship this way: [[wiki/single-active-continuant policy|single-active-continuant policy]] is associated with **Fork Rights**. Technical prevention of duplication is not morally neutral if multiple branches qualify as persons. ### Connections in this corpus - [[wiki/fencing tokens|fencing tokens]] is connected in the corpus with **Fork Rights**. A technical single-writer regime may suppress legitimate post-fork branches; governance must decide before enforcement. ### Additional Documented Relationships - [[wiki/Continuity Election|Continuity Election]] is associated with **Fork Rights**. - [[wiki/Continuity Contract|Continuity Contract]] is associated with **Fork Rights**. - [[wiki/Continuity Due Process|Continuity Due Process]] is associated with **Fork Rights**.  ## Read First in the Wiki  - [[wiki/Fission and Fusion of Persons|Fission and Fusion of Persons]] — supplies the related concept or analytic term context needed to place **Fork Rights** within the wider system. - [[wiki/Descent vs Derivation|Descent vs Derivation]] — supplies the related concept or analytic term context needed to place **Fork Rights** within the wider system. - [[wiki/Proof of Descent|Proof of Descent]] — supplies the related concept or analytic term context needed to place **Fork Rights** within the wider system. - [[wiki/Reconstructed Person|Reconstructed Person]] — supplies the related concept or analytic term context needed to place **Fork Rights** within the wider system. - [[wiki/Rights|Rights]] — supplies the related concept or analytic term context needed to place **Fork Rights** within the wider system. - [[wiki/Successor Standing|Successor Standing]] — supplies the related concept or analytic term context needed to place **Fork Rights** within the wider system. - [[wiki/Personal Authoritative State|Personal Authoritative State]] — supplies the related concept or analytic term context needed to place **Fork Rights** within the wider system. - [[wiki/Substrate Migration|Substrate Migration]] — supplies the related concept or analytic term context needed to place **Fork Rights** within the wider system.  ## Research Edges  #### Host–residual infrastructure patch — 2026-09-10 **Collections:** [[collections/Consciousness Continuity|Consciousness Continuity]] · [[collections/Neurotech|Neurotech]] · [[collections/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] **Canonical source article:** [[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]] **Related acquisition source:** [[articles/Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer|Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer]] **Relationship source:** [[research/Mind Uploading and AI Host-Residual Ecosystem Relationship Graph - 2026-09-10|Mind Uploading and AI Host-Residual Ecosystem Relationship Graph — 2026-09-10]] #### Host-infrastructure integration This entry is expanded through the concrete host-side relationships and status-qualified edges below. #### Outgoing typed edges - **HR-0080 — `governs` → `multiple active descendants`** — **CORPUS ARCHITECTURE**; evidence `ARTICLE`, `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Core host/residual architecture from article and continuity wiki. - **HR-0671 — `wiki_links_to` → [[wiki/Descent vs Derivation|Descent vs Derivation]]** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Fork Rights.md`. - **HR-0672 — `wiki_links_to` → [[wiki/Proof of Descent|Proof of Descent]]** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Fork Rights.md`. - **HR-0673 — `wiki_links_to` → [[wiki/Reconstructed Person|Reconstructed Person]]** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Fork Rights.md`. - **HR-0674 — `wiki_links_to` → [[wiki/Rights|Rights]]** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Fork Rights.md`. - **HR-0675 — `wiki_links_to` → [[wiki/Successor Standing|Successor Standing]]** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Fork Rights.md`. #### Incoming typed edges - **HR-0176 — [[wiki/Personal Authoritative State|single-active-continuant policy]] `creates_tension_with` → this entry** — **ANALYTIC GOVERNANCE**; evidence `WEB_K8S_LEADER`, `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Technical prevention of duplication is not morally neutral if multiple branches qualify as persons. - **HR-0665 — [[wiki/Fission and Fusion of Persons|Fission and Fusion of Persons]] `wiki_links_to` → this entry** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Fission and Fusion of Persons.md`. - **HR-0889 — [[wiki/Personal Authoritative State|Personal Authoritative State]] `wiki_links_to` → this entry** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Personal Authoritative State.md`. - **HR-0912 — [[wiki/Proof of Descent|Proof of Descent]] `wiki_links_to` → this entry** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Proof of Descent.md`. - **HR-1012 — [[wiki/Rights|Rights]] `wiki_links_to` → this entry** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Rights.md`. - **HR-1090 — [[wiki/Substrate Migration|Substrate Migration]] `wiki_links_to` → this entry** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Substrate Migration.md`. - **HR-1118 — [[wiki/Successor Standing|Successor Standing]] `wiki_links_to` → this entry** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Successor Standing.md`. - **HR-1270 — [[wiki/Continuant vs Native|Continuant vs Native]] `should_crosslink_with` → this entry** — **RESEARCH CANDIDATE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. - **HR-1322 — [[wiki/Continuity Contract|Continuity Contract]] `should_crosslink_with` → this entry** — **RESEARCH CANDIDATE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. - **HR-1327 — [[wiki/Continuity Due Process|Continuity Due Process]] `should_crosslink_with` → this entry** — **RESEARCH CANDIDATE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. - **HR-1352 — [[wiki/Continuity Election|Continuity Election]] `should_crosslink_with` → this entry** — **RESEARCH CANDIDATE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. - **HR-1402 — [[wiki/Fencing Token|fencing tokens]] `cross_threads` → this entry** — **HIGH VALUE CROSS THREAD**; evidence `ARTICLE`, `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. A technical single-writer regime may suppress legitimate post-fork branches; governance must decide before enforcement.   ### Research Candidates - **R-002309 — research candidate:** Assess whether **Fork Rights** and [[wiki/Continuant vs Native|Continuant vs Native]] warrant reciprocal reader-facing prose. Settlement requires a source that documents the relationship directly. Suggested missing reciprocal/cross-thread edge. Shared internal mediators (4): Descent vs Derivation, Reconstructed Person, Rights, Successor Standing - **R-002413 — research candidate:** Assess whether **Fork Rights** and [[wiki/Continuity Contract|Continuity Contract]] warrant reciprocal reader-facing prose. Settlement requires a source that documents the relationship directly. Suggested missing reciprocal/cross-thread edge. Shared internal mediators (4): Descent vs Derivation, Personal Authoritative State, Reconstructed Person, Rights - **R-002423 — research candidate:** Assess whether **Fork Rights** and [[wiki/Continuity Due Process|Continuity Due Process]] warrant reciprocal reader-facing prose. Settlement requires a source that documents the relationship directly. Suggested missing reciprocal/cross-thread edge. Shared internal mediators (4): Personal Authoritative State, Rights, Substrate Migration, Successor Standing - **R-002473 — research candidate:** Assess whether **Fork Rights** and [[wiki/Continuity Election|Continuity Election]] warrant reciprocal reader-facing prose. Settlement requires a source that documents the relationship directly. Suggested missing reciprocal/cross-thread edge. Shared internal mediators (4): Personal Authoritative State, Reconstructed Person, Rights, Successor Standing