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
- 2026-07-02T16:51:38Z
- Bitcoin block
- 956375
- Canonical record hash
- sha256:558d864918a8ac0808e222e8145503246f999f9f696b60557d2ec3e8f457e907
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.