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Certificate of Completion

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THIS ACKNOWLEDGES THAT

HAS COMPLETED THE MAY-SUMMER 2024 DEEP LEARNING BOOT CAMP

Larsen Linov

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Roman Holowinsky, PhD

September 06, 2024

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“Good composers borrow, Great ones steal!”

Emelie Curl, Tong Shan, Glenn Young, Larsen Linov, Reginald Bain

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Throughout history, composers and musicians have borrowed musical elements like chord progressions, rhythms, lyrics, and melodies from each other. Our motivation for this project is born of a fascination with this phenomenon, which of course extends to less legal examples like unconsciously or intentionally copying the work of another. Even famed and highly regarded composers like Bach, Vivaldi, Mozart, and Haydn are not innocent of borrowing from their contemporaries or even recycling their own works. Similarly, in 2015, in a high-profile court case, defendants and artists Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams were ordered to pay millions of dollars in damages for copyright infringement to Marvin Gaye's estate, considering they borrowed from Gaye’s "Got to Give it Up" when writing their hit "Blurred Lines." Our project aimed to use deep learning to assess the similarity between musical clips to potentially establish a more robust and empirical way to detect music plagiarism.

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