# Posthumous Digital Replica **Domain:** Digital Afterlife / Identity / Estate Law **Doc Type:** Canonical Concept **Maturity:** Developed **Evidence / Concept Status:** Current legal category in parts of U.S. law and pending federal legislation ## Definition A **Posthumous Digital Replica** is a machine-generated likeness or voice representation of a deceased individual governed by postmortem consent, publicity, or digital-replica rights. ## Continuity Significance It is one of the first explicit legal objects in which machine-generated human representation survives biological death under a continuing rights framework. ## Existing Architecture / Evidence State laws and the pending federal NO FAKES framework address postmortem digital-replica interests. ## Evidentiary Boundary / Red-Team Note The protected interest belongs to the person/right holder or estate; the replica is not recognized as a continuing person. ## Related Ontology [[wiki/Digital Replica|Digital Replica]] · [[wiki/Posthumous Personality Rights|Posthumous Personality Rights]] · [[wiki/NO FAKES Act of 2026|NO FAKES Act of 2026]] · [[wiki/Post-Biological Estate Planning|Post-Biological Estate Planning]] ## Sources / Provenance - https://www.copyright.gov/legislation/ <!-- 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 -->