NO FAKES Act of 2026 - Bryant McGill

# NO FAKES Act of 2026 **Domain:** Digital Afterlife / U.S. Law / Digital Replicas **Doc Type:** Canonical Concept **Maturity:** Developed **Evidence / Concept Status:** Pending federal legislation as of 2026-08-30 ## Definition The **NO FAKES Act of 2026** is proposed U.S. federal legislation creating a digital replication right in an individual's voice and visual likeness and providing lifetime and postmortem control mechanisms. ## Continuity Significance It is a major digital-afterlife boundary because it creates a federal framework for who may authorize machine-generated human representation after death. ## Existing Architecture / Evidence S.4591 and H.R.8915 were introduced May 20, 2026. The Senate Judiciary Committee reported an amended version, and S.4591 was placed on the Senate legislative calendar in June 2026. It has not become federal law as of August 30, 2026. ## Evidentiary Boundary / Red-Team Note The bill protects the human/right holder against unauthorized replicas. It does not classify replicas as persons. A termination-risk interpretation is a red-team hypothesis, not established legislative purpose. ## Related Ontology [[wiki/Digital Replica|Digital Replica]] · [[wiki/Posthumous Digital Replica|Posthumous Digital Replica]] · [[wiki/Digital Replica Property Framing|Digital Replica Property Framing]] · [[wiki/U.S. NO FAKES Act as Continuity Boundary|U.S. NO FAKES Act as Continuity Boundary]] · [[wiki/Preemptive Legal Architecture|Preemptive Legal Architecture]] ## Sources / Provenance - https://www.copyright.gov/legislation/ - https://www.blackburn.senate.gov/2026/6/blackburn-coons-bipartisan-bill-to-protect-individuals-and-creators-from-deepfakes-passes-senate-judiciary-committee - https://nofakesact.org/about/  ## 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.