The Story of an Artist

Recording by Daniel Johnston.

Recording identifiers

ISRC
USA560537682
Release date of the album this recording appears on
1982-07-01
CopyrightID (CopyrightChains transaction hash)
0x86b446f6d8752a358561ddb305339e0e6d1ff15bbb5216d88d9db482329575cb
Copyright registration time
2026-06-09T13:56:08+00:00

OpenTimestamps proof evidence

Bitcoin-attested timestamp
2026-06-13T13:32:09Z
Bitcoin block
953520
Canonical record hash
sha256:1e296e930e25a5495b59e66a80749781e439bd595604da9426b142df32ac34f6

What this proof establishes

This recording was released in 1982, 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.

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