The Hard Way Every Time

Recording by Jim Croce.

Recording identifiers

ISRC
GBAJE0604385
CopyrightID (CopyrightChains transaction hash)
0x83e4b673e4d279ed55aaaa7f54b86e08a24dbe9c8da24c5e4e12ddc70a2cedf2
Copyright registration time
2026-06-04T14:45:13+00:00

OpenTimestamps proof evidence

Bitcoin-attested timestamp
2026-06-13T12:47:07Z
Bitcoin block
953513
Canonical record hash
sha256:b592bcbcdee73e0ddf51ff058cd869def6293ac1f8677ae4245d1f4ad87ab33a

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.