We Didn't Start the Fire

Recording by Billy Joel.

Recording identifiers

ISRC
USSM18900217
CopyrightID (CopyrightChains transaction hash)
0x402da95dfe2c019f279b52a98772c32c0a8f5d6e56facd7656d4b232a52ea90a
Copyright registration time
2026-07-03T05:05:13+00:00

OpenTimestamps proof evidence

Bitcoin-attested timestamp
2026-07-08T03:20:19Z
Bitcoin block
957118
Canonical record hash
sha256:0648f74f0e1f95392df2e0412c4638c6f9c45fdbf3904ef2548b00a51004bc86

What this proof establishes

This recording belongs to ProofProfile's historical evidence base derived from the pre-2022 AcousticBrainz and MusicBrainz corpus. 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.