The Way It Has to Be

Recording by Paul Jackson, Jr..

Recording identifiers

ISRC
USAT20002910
Release date of the album this recording appears on
1990
CopyrightID (CopyrightChains transaction hash)
0x8854a52f549b67f53316c5d17d10d7e9342ef5d94a39df24920e8695002aba39
Copyright registration time
2026-07-31T09:52:14+00:00

OpenTimestamps proof evidence

Bitcoin-attested timestamp
2026-07-31T10:06:30Z
Bitcoin block
960387
Canonical record hash
sha256:21537f427b04a4590e9852b78007846a5b0b71081f3916e801c7f050badf4467

What this proof establishes

This recording was released in 1990, 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.