(Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay

Recording by Otis Redding.

Recording identifiers

ISRC
USAT21403443
Release date of the album this recording appears on
2023-08-04
CopyrightID (CopyrightChains transaction hash)
0xbc23f904c6751b5b11bdbd9d28a289036724b9d8c5e79b5412e216eaf6003a05
Copyright registration time
2026-06-01T03:57:43+00:00

OpenTimestamps proof evidence

Bitcoin-attested timestamp
2026-07-07T16:07:00Z
Bitcoin block
957061
Canonical record hash
sha256:c6fe31d728afac1f0d96424eba43ca084960f9892a154cce869993c037c4362d

What this proof establishes

This recording was released in 2023. ProofProfile's artist catalogue derives from the pre-2022 AcousticBrainz and MusicBrainz source corpus, and this recording entered the record through cc-db-prod's ISRC-linked registration. Its provenance rests on the dates stated above rather than on the era of that source corpus.

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.