The Question Is Why

Recording by Michael Franks.

Recording identifiers

ISRC
USKO10600623
CopyrightID (CopyrightChains transaction hash)
0xb5a42bc618373db066be694de69d1b3304bbde202b0d298fb9e0d3c2921e1901
Copyright registration time
2026-06-17T20:58:43+00:00

OpenTimestamps proof evidence

Bitcoin-attested timestamp
2026-07-02T03:30:09Z
Bitcoin block
956302
Canonical record hash
sha256:99923c6897777b3efed9679570f234e9fc93ea432cf8ad60925d1b77f5c2d92e

What this proof establishes

This recording belongs to ProofProfile's historical evidence base derived from the pre-2022 AcousticBrainz and MusicBrainz corpus. 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.

Read the complete pre-generative-AI provenance and verification method.