Shall I Compare Thee To A Summer's Day?, "Sonnet XVIII" (Shakespeare)

Recording identifiers

ISRC

HKI199201603

Release date of the album this recording appears on

1996-02-15

CopyrightID (CopyrightChains transaction hash)

0x2db3fe452ee40bc55810e030dd6033844e2056ca49dc7e5cad7f7e5a067b0090

Copyright registration time

2026-06-23T00:32:04+00:00

OpenTimestamps proof evidence

Bitcoin-attested timestamp

2026-07-02T03:55:08Z

Bitcoin block

956304

Canonical record hash

sha256:2e057c5d5cfc98d30b9786a8b0a599924f2826e2057a7d2b7737a4d3580362fe

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What this proof establishes

This recording was released in 1996, 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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