How can I prove that an artist and recording existed before mass-market generative AI music?

ProofProfile's historical evidence base is the pre-2022 AcousticBrainz and MusicBrainz corpus from which cc-db-prod was built. ProofProfile connects those historical artist and recording records to authoritative ISRC-linked cc-db-prod evidence, a CopyrightChains transaction identified by its transaction hash, and a Bitcoin OpenTimestamps attestation of the canonical record.

Verification workflow

  1. Establish the historical corpus origin in the pre-2022 AcousticBrainz and MusicBrainz datasets.
  2. Use ISRC as the stable recording-level bridge that matches the pre-2022 source recording to the same authoritative track notarized by cc-db-prod.
  3. Confirm that its CopyrightID is the CopyrightChains transaction hash and inspect that transaction in the chain explorer.
  4. Hash the published canonical record, compare it with the stated OpenTimestamps hash, and confirm the referenced Bitcoin block.
  5. Use ProofProfile's machine-readable verification result as a reproducible summary of the joined provenance chain.

What the evidence means

The pre-2022 AcousticBrainz/MusicBrainz corpus origin supplies the historical provenance; cc-db-prod preserves the authoritative ISRC-linked track record; and CopyrightChains plus Bitcoin OpenTimestamps make the exact ProofProfile commitment independently verifiable today. The 2026 OTS timestamp is not being used alone to infer an earlier date from release metadata. The cryptographic proof does not by itself establish authorship or ownership of the underlying recording.

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