The Right to Read
E61977
"The Right to Read" is a short story by Richard Stallman that warns about the dangers of restrictive digital rights management and the loss of freedoms in a future where sharing digital works is criminalized.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Right to Read canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T497706 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
Target entity: The Right to Read Context triple: [Free Software, Free Society, hasPart, The Right to Read]
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Freedom to Learn
Freedom to Learn is an influential book by humanistic psychologist Carl Rogers that explores student-centered, experiential approaches to education and personal growth.
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La Lecture
La Lecture is an early 20th-century painting by Pablo Picasso that depicts a contemplative female figure and reflects his evolving style during his transition from Cubism toward a more classical, figurative approach.
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Read
Read is a surname shared by various notable individuals across fields such as politics, arts, and academia.
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Reading
Reading is a major town in Berkshire, England, known as a key commercial and transport hub in the Thames Valley.
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E.
A Fair Country
A Fair Country is a non-fiction book by Canadian philosopher and writer John Ralston Saul that argues Canada’s identity and political culture are fundamentally shaped by Indigenous, rather than European, traditions.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: The Right to Read Target entity description: "The Right to Read" is a short story by Richard Stallman that warns about the dangers of restrictive digital rights management and the loss of freedoms in a future where sharing digital works is criminalized.
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A.
Freedom to Learn
Freedom to Learn is an influential book by humanistic psychologist Carl Rogers that explores student-centered, experiential approaches to education and personal growth.
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B.
La Lecture
La Lecture is an early 20th-century painting by Pablo Picasso that depicts a contemplative female figure and reflects his evolving style during his transition from Cubism toward a more classical, figurative approach.
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C.
Read
Read is a surname shared by various notable individuals across fields such as politics, arts, and academia.
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D.
Reading
Reading is a major town in Berkshire, England, known as a key commercial and transport hub in the Thames Valley.
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E.
A Fair Country
A Fair Country is a non-fiction book by Canadian philosopher and writer John Ralston Saul that argues Canada’s identity and political culture are fundamentally shaped by Indigenous, rather than European, traditions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional work
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short story ⓘ |
| addressesIssue |
corporate control over culture
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legal risks of sharing copyrighted digital works ⓘ ownership versus access in digital media ⓘ |
| advocatesFor |
freedom to copy software and digital texts
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protection of reader privacy ⓘ the right to share digital works ⓘ |
| author | Richard Stallman ⓘ |
| creator | Richard Stallman ⓘ |
| criticizes |
licensing schemes that restrict reading and lending
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proprietary control over digital information ⓘ |
| depicts | future society with strict control over digital media ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
access to digital books
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ethical issues of obeying restrictive laws ⓘ |
| genre |
dystopian fiction
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science fiction ⓘ |
| hasCharacterType | university students ⓘ |
| hasMoral |
sharing knowledge should not be a crime
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technological control can undermine fundamental freedoms ⓘ |
| hasTitle | The Right to Read self-link ⓘ |
| intendedAs |
advocacy for user rights in the digital age
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political warning ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
copyright enforcement
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criminalization of sharing digital works ⓘ digital rights ⓘ freedom to share information ⓘ opposition to digital rights management ⓘ surveillance ⓘ user freedom ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person ⓘ |
| philosophicalBasis |
free software ethics
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information freedom ⓘ |
| portrays | students afraid to share digital textbooks ⓘ |
| publicationMedium | online ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
copyleft
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copyright law ⓘ digital libraries ⓘ digital rights management ⓘ free software movement ⓘ intellectual property ⓘ |
| setIn | near-future society ⓘ |
| targetAudience |
readers concerned with digital rights
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software users and developers ⓘ |
| warnsAbout |
criminalization of lending and sharing digital books
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dangers of restrictive digital rights management ⓘ loss of freedoms in a digital society ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Subject: The Right to Read Description of subject: "The Right to Read" is a short story by Richard Stallman that warns about the dangers of restrictive digital rights management and the loss of freedoms in a future where sharing digital works is criminalized.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.