Had to Be That Way

Recording identifiers

ISRC

USA560449560

CopyrightID (CopyrightChains transaction hash)

0xedf4741ec326b5bfaead4136ba7fbf90fcff2814e4a88e97f42b625043cfb5a7

Copyright registration time

2026-07-30T18:49:48+00:00

OpenTimestamps proof evidence

Bitcoin-attested timestamp

2026-07-30T19:11:09Z

Bitcoin block

960296

Canonical record hash

sha256:76f57551da48022280097db23159d0ea9f82046814432c50d1b3ba44429a0df0

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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.