I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free

Recording by Billy Taylor.

Recording identifiers

ISRC
USBC17000325
Release date of the album this recording appears on
1997-01-09
CopyrightID (CopyrightChains transaction hash)
0x84dcb2708af36c4f7d3c0e47218ce9cc1862382d89d25e58bb646cfd2a586a4b
Copyright registration time
2026-07-31T15:25:55+00:00

OpenTimestamps proof evidence

Bitcoin-attested timestamp
2026-07-31T15:59:18Z
Bitcoin block
960427
Canonical record hash
sha256:2b83c64e5c09dfebf54db9da8112f693c1e50ceb6ef2fd1bd8ef95a1d6845cc3

What this proof establishes

This recording was released in 1997, 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.