Why Is the Courtesy of the Prey Always Confused with the Courtesy of the Hunters... Pt. III

Recording by Merzbow.

Recording identifiers

ISRC
GBYNS1600596
Release date of the album this recording appears on
2016-07-22
CopyrightID (CopyrightChains transaction hash)
0x1502d68898fd1abd3c7643a10e384e694a169e9042f3d5976061533a1f85dd3c
Copyright registration time
2026-07-06T06:46:05+00:00

OpenTimestamps proof evidence

Bitcoin-attested timestamp
2026-07-06T07:53:57Z
Bitcoin block
956894
Canonical record hash
sha256:9d77d83a2fea04e9e58b9ebacb3191b31d0467d1f9f72f52b23c37bd8bbd38b6

What this proof establishes

This recording was released in 2016, 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.