Checklist · Defamation & Media Law
Publication capture worksheet
A worksheet for recording a publication before a correction demand: the words, the URL, the time, and who could see it. It does not decide what the statements mean.
- Kind
- Checklist. Steps or checks to work through and tick off.
- Where it applies
- United States
- AI use
- Yellow You and the tool draft together, with you directing. You check every statement you rely on.
- Law stated as at
- 22 October 2026
- Status
- Maintained. Checked on 22 October 2026 against the 2 authorities it cites, for United States.
- Version
- 1
- Source
- Written for this library
When to use it
Use when a publication has to be captured before it changes. The lawyer chooses which sentences are the ones to challenge. The worksheet does not send a demand.
Used for these tasks
- Capture the publication with URL, time, audience and copies
- List candidate imputations from the publication
Each task page says how far AI may help with the task and what the lawyer must review.
How AI may be used
AI may fill the URL, time, and quoted words from a capture the lawyer supplies. The lawyer decides which statements are challenged and whether they are false.
AI may
- Transcribe the words from the capture without smoothing them
- Record the URL, the time of capture, and the format
- List a statement the lawyer has not marked, so the lawyer can remove it
AI must not
- Must not decide that a statement is false or defamatory
- Must not draft the publisher's correction
- Must not send a demand from this worksheet
The lawyer checks
- The quote matches the saved copy
- The capture date is recorded separately from the publication date
- Statements the client will actually challenge are marked by the lawyer
Method: how the Green, Yellow and Red levels are decided. This is guidance for planning, not legal advice.
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- add it to your firm’s knowledge base, so colleagues can find it;
- let the AI tools you connect read it from that knowledge base.
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