The Ballad of Billy the Kid

Recording by Billy Joel.

Recording identifiers

ISRC
USSM17300507
CopyrightID (CopyrightChains transaction hash)
0x6ceaab651a7f6fe78835522a3abd4cd22e2fc0d06c87319775dd58bf432680f7
Copyright registration time
2026-06-04T15:08:03+00:00

OpenTimestamps proof evidence

Bitcoin-attested timestamp
2026-06-13T12:47:07Z
Bitcoin block
953513
Canonical record hash
sha256:05b2b08a7c57bb4e97e5310bcaac94d409239a71a21bd3c95768753d6d0bc208

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.