Method

1. Intake and authority verification

Atlantic first establishes the requester’s documented authority to act by reviewing identity, relationship to the work, protected-work records and relevant assignment, employment, agency or licence documentation.

Incomplete authority does not necessarily mean the request is false; it means the matter cannot progress to consequential action until the gap is resolved.

• Source or original file
• Publication or contributor history
• Contracts, assignments or mandates where relevant
• Declaration of accuracy and authority

2. Preservation and technical capture

Publicly accessible pages may change, disappear or vary by location and time. Atlantic preserves the relevant URL, visible context, date, domain and captured record together with integrity identifiers so later review can trace the observed use and preserved evidence.

Atlantic’s method does not authorize intrusion, password bypass, credential misuse or access to non-public systems.

3. Rights, licence and context review

The platform compares the observed use with the requester’s records and checks for indicators of licensing, syndication, agency distribution, editorial use, platform terms, assignments, public-domain status or other relevant context.

Potential statutory exceptions and defences—such as fair use in the United States—require a fact-specific legal analysis and cannot be resolved by a similarity percentage.

4. Human classification and next-step control

A trained reviewer classifies the matter as authorized, likely authorized, unresolved, insufficiently documented, potentially unauthorized or unsuitable for further action. The classification records reasons and supporting material.

External correspondence, formal notices, agreements, payments, payouts and deletion of evidence require the permissions and confirmations defined by the platform.

5. Quality assurance and correction

Material changes are logged. If new evidence contradicts an earlier assumption, the record can be corrected without erasing the historical decision. This protects both the requester and the recipient from silent rewriting.

The system favors reversible steps—review, clarification, quarantine and archiving—before irreversible action.