The Big Cheese (incorporating a fantasia by William Byrd [1543-1623]) - Instrumental

Recording identifiers

ISRC

USSM19701429

Release date of the album this recording appears on

1997-08-14

CopyrightID (CopyrightChains transaction hash)

0x6fe22ce5d75d0f4ba51109ab29fc05df6a67f342fbeb9d46c9262831ae903afa

Copyright registration time

2026-06-21T21:57:29+00:00

OpenTimestamps proof evidence

Bitcoin-attested timestamp

2026-07-02T03:30:09Z

Bitcoin block

956302

Canonical record hash

sha256:5674745580a285d13f8e2dc3711c394d9dabb7fad695f95e673b3a0a996b3665

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What this proof establishes

This recording was released in 1997, 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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