The Authors’ Petition
Abstract
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.
This paper has been withdrawn.