# U.S. Digital Replica Law **Domain:** Digital Afterlife / United States / Digital Replicas **Doc Type:** Canonical Concept **Maturity:** Developed **Evidence / Concept Status:** Level A/D — enacted state laws plus federal proposals ## Definition **U.S. Digital Replica Law** is the emerging body of state and proposed federal rules protecting individuals against unauthorized AI-generated representations of voice or likeness, including some postmortem interests. ## Continuity Significance It normalizes legal governance of machine-generated human representation after death. ## Existing Architecture / Evidence State publicity/replica laws and Copyright Office work form the current legal substrate; federal NO FAKES legislation remains pending. ## Evidentiary Boundary / Red-Team Note These laws protect source humans/right holders and generally treat the replica as an object of rights, not a rights holder. ## Related Ontology [[wiki/Digital Replica|Digital Replica]] · [[wiki/Posthumous Digital Replica|Posthumous Digital Replica]] · [[wiki/NO FAKES Act of 2026|NO FAKES Act of 2026]] · [[wiki/Digital Replica Property Framing|Digital Replica Property Framing]] ## 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 -->