Lean on Me

Recording by Bill Withers.

Recording identifiers

ISRC
USSM17200084
Release date of the album this recording appears on
1994-08-09
CopyrightID (CopyrightChains transaction hash)
0x8b2f14ee588e80918de89206ef9cc55b92e50f7c0a2d3e982f2d282c90faa499
Copyright registration time
2026-06-01T20:47:58+00:00

OpenTimestamps proof evidence

Bitcoin-attested timestamp
2026-06-13T12:47:07Z
Bitcoin block
953513
Canonical record hash
sha256:8058667aaada7f92868d35746da06b3d8215751e3a29b6b6ffe4b4defe1d453e

What this proof establishes

This recording was released in 1994, 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.