It Doesn't Have to Be That Way

Recording by Jim Croce.

Recording identifiers

ISRC
QMRSZ1601348
CopyrightID (CopyrightChains transaction hash)
0x399aa1c91f1b84c8a9f4c224f77e0da38884e85934ac9a9a3e4e92d865a57afa
Copyright registration time
2026-06-05T11:35:58+00:00

OpenTimestamps proof evidence

Bitcoin-attested timestamp
2026-06-13T12:47:07Z
Bitcoin block
953513
Canonical record hash
sha256:bf6bd7d1b65a904a9a515ef194d84806151a2fca16e561a94d634b79391936ce

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.