If I Ruled the World (Imagine That) (feat. Lauryn Hill)

Recording identifiers

ISRC

USSM19601375

Release date of the album this recording appears on

1996-07-02

CopyrightID (CopyrightChains transaction hash)

0xeceddc90b517d5c00ff5a388d5ceb900e9f44795c748097ac00e1a10e00ee6c1

Copyright registration time

2026-06-01T06:53:26+00:00

OpenTimestamps proof evidence

Bitcoin-attested timestamp

2026-06-13T12:47:07Z

Bitcoin block

953513

Canonical record hash

sha256:1ec39bf8701ab032c2ebcb103ab7d4307e62479efb5597f2f363acf5ddd5e134

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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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