The Ballad Of Melody Nelson

Recording by Fred Frith.

Recording identifiers

ISRC
USCRW9711607
CopyrightID (CopyrightChains transaction hash)
0x8c18de48b16a3646602652b00b5b977efe97c2ce2e5925dc4871c569555450b0
Copyright registration time
2026-07-30T20:03:36+00:00

OpenTimestamps proof evidence

Bitcoin-attested timestamp
2026-07-30T20:09:33Z
Bitcoin block
960302
Canonical record hash
sha256:9ffa647ce7e3bf78e33f7c6cfeca3be34cd56036d08ba657fba0733b1a57743a

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.