The Thing

Recording by Sly & The Family Stone.

Recording identifiers

ISRC
USSM10700311
Release date of the album this recording appears on
1976-12-18
CopyrightID (CopyrightChains transaction hash)
0x094a5341f95a68ff5ed562d9b2aea65dab64269a67ae77f3c7705e73d44ab1f3
Copyright registration time
2026-07-30T01:29:16+00:00

OpenTimestamps proof evidence

Bitcoin-attested timestamp
2026-07-30T01:34:28Z
Bitcoin block
960187
Canonical record hash
sha256:1be9cfca857fe527b4a9a32d17b17c74dc915a3e267a5398faf2c8102f1be2c3

What this proof establishes

This recording was released in 1976, 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.