It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry

Recording identifiers

ISRC

USCMG0301874

Release date of the album this recording appears on

2002-08-27

CopyrightID (CopyrightChains transaction hash)

0xa9d7a9f0682abd0b03ab6a651d0ec28f60cbf2f4e021352a21f6f676c7d72197

Copyright registration time

2026-06-17T21:02:49+00:00

OpenTimestamps proof evidence

Bitcoin-attested timestamp

2026-07-02T03:30:09Z

Bitcoin block

956302

Canonical record hash

sha256:29035260336b55a0389da6101489ff10f5626f2f36737d7b85f945a12c8f6379

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What this proof establishes

This recording was released in 2002, 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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