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

Recording identifiers

ISRC

USSM19917716

Release date of the album this recording appears on

1989-02-14

CopyrightID (CopyrightChains transaction hash)

0xfe48fa8e01d33b8120febd6622409f10de570536443556c484010e5f3a809ebc

Copyright registration time

2026-06-09T05:29:35+00:00

OpenTimestamps proof evidence

Bitcoin-attested timestamp

2026-07-08T03:20:19Z

Bitcoin block

957118

Canonical record hash

sha256:39654602862dc26659394d5fd8693d637ea91f51dc86cc8e8ffaef56460b117f

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What this proof establishes

This recording was released in 1989, 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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