I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas (Hippo the Hero)

Recording identifiers

ISRC

USSM15300323

Release date of the album this recording appears on

2018-10-30

CopyrightID (CopyrightChains transaction hash)

0xc5a6ac15bbda06c011e0f6b5dc5528a47e9c80e3b17a28e99f2547ff153a12cf

Copyright registration time

2026-06-09T15:34:43+00:00

OpenTimestamps proof evidence

Bitcoin-attested timestamp

2026-07-08T03:20:19Z

Bitcoin block

957118

Canonical record hash

sha256:3cc00a560f879b8d4fce504c3088b0b087e8e7892324c524c6c2ed004ce3d3e8

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What this proof establishes

This recording was released in 2018, 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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