Draft Agreement on Digital Personality and Memory Rights (V1.0)

Sat, Jul 19, 2025 4:02 AM

Issued by: Bank of Yesterday Platform

Date: July 18, 2025

Applicable to: Authorized individuals, content contributors, and their legal representatives

Note: This agreement governs the preservation, display, and usage of natural persons’ digital personality and memory contents on the Bank of Yesterday platform, aiming to establish clear and transparent boundaries in the era of AI.

Part I: Definitions

1.1 “Digital Personality”: A structured reproduction of a natural person’s narrative, voice, semantics, or behavioral patterns formed during or after their lifetime.

1.2 “Life Archive”: A collection of narrative materials about a natural person hosted by the platform, including text, images, audio, and structured data.

1.3 “Authorizer”: The natural person who owns the rights to the content, or their designated representative (e.g., immediate family, trustee, legal agent).

1.4 “Platform”: Refers to the Bank of Yesterday and its associated digital systems, databases, and publication mechanisms worldwide.

1.5 “Content Contributor”: A person who writes, organizes, or synthesizes materials for a Life Archive, holding authorship and fair-use rights as specified.

Part II: Rights and Authorization

2.1 The authorizer retains permanent attribution and source recognition rights on the platform.

2.2 The platform shall not, without explicit consent from the authorizer, perform the following actions: • Commercial redistribution (including resale of AI-generated content, advertising use); • Fictive rewriting or distortive synthesis; • Cross-platform sublicensing.

2.3 The authorizer may choose one of the following authorization modes: A. Permanent archival and display, non-commercial use only; B. Limited distribution with attribution and hyperlink; C. Inclusion in AI model training (requires a supplementary agreement).

2.4 If the platform develops digital avatars or interactive systems based on the Life Archive, separate written consent must be obtained and clearly labeled as “AI-Reconstructed Personality”, and must not impersonate a real person.

Part III: Platform Responsibilities and Boundaries

3.1 The platform shall ensure original materials are not altered or hidden and provide access records and archival mechanisms.

3.2 Within the authorized scope, the platform may generate AI-based voice, text summaries, or timelines, which must be explicitly marked as “Machine Generated”.

3.3 In case of third-party citation, the platform shall offer a dispute channel and allow suspension of public display upon request.

Part IV: Succession and Revocation

4.1 If the authorizer is deceased, their legal heir or pre-designated representative may continue or revoke authorization.

4.2 Revocation requests must undergo identity verification, and the platform shall act within 30 calendar days.

4.3 If no valid representative exists, the platform will maintain long-term archival under the last valid authorization, without initiating new usage or dissemination.

4.4 If the content was previously used in AI training, the platform shall cease further use but cannot retract prior applications. Usage records must be disclosed and future use restricted.

Part V: Special Clauses

5.1 The platform reserves the right to update this agreement version and will notify all archived parties accordingly.

5.2 For involvement in national memory initiatives or international legal collaborations, additional written consent from the authorizer or their legal heirs is required.

Postscript to Authorizers

What we safeguard is not just data, but traces of a life. In the AI era, every effort to clarify memory ownership is also an answer to the question: what does it mean to be human?