# Posthumous Personality Rights **Domain:** Digital Afterlife / Personality / Likeness **Doc Type:** Canonical Concept **Maturity:** Developed **Evidence / Concept Status:** Established in varying forms by jurisdiction ## Definition **Posthumous Personality Rights** are legal interests in name, likeness, voice, reputation, publicity, or identity that continue after death for a defined period or through successors. ## Continuity Significance They provide a current bridge from biological identity to control over machine-generated posthumous representations. ## Existing Architecture / Evidence U.S. states and other jurisdictions provide varying postmortem publicity/personality rights. ## Evidentiary Boundary / Red-Team Note These are generally interests managed by living right holders, not rights of a computational replica. ## Related Ontology [[wiki/Posthumous Digital Replica|Posthumous Digital Replica]] · [[wiki/Digital Replica Property Framing|Digital Replica Property Framing]] · [[wiki/Digital Replica|Digital Replica]]