Receipts & Red Flags: Part 2 — The Promo Language Theft

In this episode of The AC Pulse, Amanda Corrales documents what happens when an artist’s original concept doesn’t just get “borrowed”—it gets rebranded.

You’ll hear Amanda read directly from her original submission, Artist Through the Prism, followed by the promotional language used by RedLine for its 2024 programming. The similarities aren’t abstract. They’re structural, tonal, and—at points—word for word.

This episode explores:

• How artistic ideas are institutionally laundered

• Why lack of credit is a systemic issue in nonprofit arts spaces

• The difference between recognition and replication

• How appropriation often hides behind equity language

This isn’t a copyright case.
It’s a pattern.

And once you hear it, you can’t unhear it.

🧺 Featuring a satirical ad break: The Language Laundromat™
Because “credit” is optional—but your gala speech is mandatory.

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Episode 8: Receipts & Red Flags (Part 1 — The Inquiry Trail)

What happens when artists document everything — and institutions rely on silence?

In Episode 8 of The AC Pulse, Amanda Corrales examines a real, documented paper trail involving a nonprofit arts organization, an event inquiry submission, internal acknowledgment, and the later reuse of artist ideas without credit.

This episode focuses on artist intellectual property, creative labor, and power dynamics in arts institutions — and how documentation disrupts institutional gaslighting.

This is not speculation.
It is a paper trail.

Episode 8 begins a multi-part investigative series on:
• artist idea theft and uncredited creative labor
• nonprofit arts organizations and accountability
• how “misunderstandings” are manufactured through delay
• why artists are dismissed without documentation

If you are an artist navigating institutions, grants, residencies, or nonprofit partnerships, this episode explains why paper trails matter — and how silence is often strategic.

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🎙 The AC Pulse — Season 2, Episode 6
“They Lawyered Up, We Logged On”

When accountability knocks, institutions don’t always respond with integrity — they respond with attorneys.

In Episode 6 of The AC Pulse: Season 2 — Behind the Red Line, host Amanda Corrales breaks down what happened after she formally invoiced RedLine for copyright infringement. Instead of dialogue, repair, or acknowledgment, the organization escalated to legal dismissal — attempting to erase authorship, deny ownership, and rewrite the record entirely.

This episode exposes how nonprofit power operates once an artist stops asking politely and starts documenting professionally. Using real emails, legal language, and firsthand receipts, Amanda walks listeners through the familiar institutional playbook: deny protectability, minimize contribution, recast the artist as the aggressor, and close ranks behind legalese.

With razor-sharp analysis and biting satire — including a mock ad for Silence Shield™ by Legalese® — Episode 6 unpacks how artists are embraced as “community” until they assert ownership, credit, or compensation. Then suddenly, they’re a liability.

This isn’t just about RedLine.
It’s about how systems protect themselves — and how artists protect the record.

In this episode:

• When silence becomes institutional strategy

• How nonprofits use lawyers to deflect accountability

• Why copyright exists the moment you create

• How gaslighting collapses when receipts are logged

• A satirical ad break that hits a little too close to home

Coming next: the funders — and the quiet complicity that keeps this cycle alive.

The AC Pulse is where the gaslighting stops — and the public record begins.

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