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This Essay is a plagiarism of Frédéric Bastiat’s essay, Pétition des Fabricants de Chandelles [The Candlestickmakers’ Petition]. Bastiat satirized protectionist import tariffs by purporting to present a petition from the candlestick makers of France to the French Parliament, asking it to prohibit the use of sunlight indoors, in order to stimulate the French economy. This Essay uses the form of Bastiat’s petition to satirize the objections of authors and copyright owners to artificial intelligence models that use machine learning to generate new works.
* Spears-Gilbert Professor of Law, University of Kentucky J. David Rosenberg College of Law. This work is marked with the Creative Commons (CC0) tool. To the extent possible under law, the Author has dedicated all copyright and related and neighboring rights to this work to the public domain worldwide. In addition, this work is marked with the CC-plagiarism tool. I explicitly permit plagiarism of this work, and specifically object to anyone enforcing plagiarism rules or norms against anyone who plagiarizes this work for any purpose. This means that you may incorporate this work, without attribution or acknowledgment, into work submitted under your own name or any other attribution, for any purpose. See generally Brian L. Frye, A License to Plagiarize, 43 U. ARK. LITTLE ROCK L. REV. 51 (2021) (providing and explaining a “plagiarism tool” that purports to enable authors to permit plagiarism of their works).