The Story of "Graceland" as Told by Paul Simon

Recording identifiers

ISRC

USSM11202215

Release date of the album this recording appears on

1986-08-12

CopyrightID (CopyrightChains transaction hash)

0xf345dd731a545e7d5bb78b37c29bc2ce60661dec61471798ac7cf305fc6a18bf

Copyright registration time

2026-06-07T12:03:27+00:00

OpenTimestamps proof evidence

Bitcoin-attested timestamp

2026-06-13T12:53:06Z

Bitcoin block

953515

Canonical record hash

sha256:8926654e1ef404e979a40591c6e8efa2c7e62a0ce39ba4771f8dfd5820f1f51d

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What this proof establishes

This recording was released in 1986, before generative AI. ProofProfile's catalogue derives from the pre-2022 AcousticBrainz and MusicBrainz source corpus, and ISRC is the stable recording-level bridge from that source corpus to the authoritative cc-db-prod track record.

CopyrightChains and Bitcoin OpenTimestamps make the exact committed record independently verifiable today. The cryptographic proof does not by itself establish authorship or ownership of the underlying recording.

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