Core Principle

A person's full cognitive state, memories, or data capable of producing an independent successor may not be copied without consent.

Detailed Rules

  • Backup permission is not permission to instantiate a new person.
  • Diagnostic snapshots may not be repurposed into independent persons without authorization.
  • Post-termination copying is constrained by prior wishes and legacy law.

Scope and Limits

Transient fault-tolerance redundancy lacking independent first-person history may be governed separately by technical standards.