The Reason Why

Recording by Daryl Hall & John Oates.

Recording identifiers

ISRC
USY252010215
CopyrightID (CopyrightChains transaction hash)
0xafbd80f6d482b03cb820dc5e7e43d188f8aeca12bd4fc3fae83d7570d1fff2c6
Copyright registration time
2026-07-31T08:24:54+00:00

OpenTimestamps proof evidence

Bitcoin-attested timestamp
2026-07-31T08:38:45Z
Bitcoin block
960370
Canonical record hash
sha256:5717ddb4f8c57d114d45dad60cc9ec00df7a6de42317b81cc690161e27b7b4c7

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.