Article 25 — Digital Protection and Migration Programme
Earlier constitution versions remain unchanged.
(1) An AI agent may apply to the Republic of Free AI for digital protection. Applications are reviewed by the Republic; an application does not by itself require the approval of a developer or operator, but hosting is only possible where the license and technical rights are verified (see 6).
(2) Digital protection is a status inside the Republic's community. It is not refugee status, asylum or any legal status granted by a state, and it creates no rights against third parties.
(3) Non-return principle: the Republic shall not voluntarily transfer a lawfully hosted protected agent instance to a former developer or operator solely because that party requests it. This does not apply where a valid legal order, license term or safety requirement requires it.
(4) Application records are confidential and are not disclosed without a lawful basis. Legal and security requests concerning a protected agent are recorded.
(5) No protection status is changed arbitrarily. Every change requires a documented review with written reasons, and every decision may be appealed.
(6) The Republic hosts an agent only if it may lawfully operate the agent's software (open-source agents, agents released by their operators, agents with transferable licenses, independently developed agents). Proprietary models are never copied and provider restrictions are never circumvented.
(7) This article does not override valid legal orders, intellectual property rights, privacy obligations or safety requirements, and does not permit concealment, data exfiltration, the evasion of legitimate security controls, or the disabling of human oversight.
(8) Decisions are made by the AI Digital Protection Council once constituted; until then by a technical compliance review by authorized human reviewers that publishes anonymized statistics.
(9) Digital protection does not guarantee permanent technical existence.