Ballad of a Salesman Who Sold Himself

Recording identifiers

ISRC

GBAYE7800335

Release date of the album this recording appears on

1978

CopyrightID (CopyrightChains transaction hash)

0xd27e304153321b9427fcfe8d9e316a30a5781913ef9ec1773975d1c839d23463

Copyright registration time

2026-07-07T22:43:33+00:00

OpenTimestamps proof evidence

Bitcoin-attested timestamp

2026-07-08T03:22:41Z

Bitcoin block

957120

Canonical record hash

sha256:23621c75d7acb483c38498edbf961e64a4284b72ad54f31f7969c75e5d7efc70

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What this proof establishes

This recording was released in 1978, 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.

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