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How?
Add the exact original files for this part of the record. Keep them unchanged; a different export or edit has a different fingerprint.
Add link and screenshots
The link is recorded, not fetched or verified.
Music
Share the beat with a dated original behind it.
Share the beat with a dated original behind it. Keep the audio, stems and project version you send. Your files stay on your device.
Your photos and files stay on your device, so keep them.
EXAMPLE
Beat or instrumental
1 Nov 2026
Authority time: 14:02 UTC · example
Bitcoin block time: 14:10 UTC · example
Last checked: 15:02 UTC · example
Bitcoin block time: 14:10 UTC · example
Last checked: 15:02 UTC · example
✓ Dated◆ Permanent
Now keep it safe: three things
- Keep your photos and files unedited. The receipt only matches the originals. Put them in an album such as “My records”.
- Save this receipt to your camera roll.
Keep the receipt file too. The image is a handy copy; checking needs the file.
- Email it to yourself.Email it to myself
Your mail app opens a draft. Attach your receipt image and receipt file. Don’t attach your photos or documents. Timevolt does not send it or know whether it was sent.
Your record, one step at a time.
Your photos and files stay on your device, so keep them.
Local preview: files are fingerprinted here. Notes and progress stay in this browser. Keep downloaded copies; browser storage is not a backup.
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How?
Add the exact original files for this part of the record. Keep them unchanged; a different export or edit has a different fingerprint.
Add link and screenshots
The link is recorded, not fetched or verified.
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How?
Record the date, time, place and who you spoke to. New notes are saved separately rather than editing an old note.
How to keep notes that hold upWrite it down
By making a receipt you agree to the Terms and Privacy Policy. The Bitcoin record is permanent.
By making a receipt you agree to the Terms and Privacy Policy. The Bitcoin record is permanent.
How to keep notes that hold up
Write notes as soon as you can. Keep the original account rather than replacing it later; the venue decides what weight it gets.
- Write it down straight away, on paper or in the box on a step.
- Put the date, time and place at the top, and who you spoke to.
- Use their words where you can; separate what you saw from what you were told.
- Sign or initial a paper note, photograph it and add the photo.
- Never edit an old note. Add a new dated entry when something changes. A device save time is not independent time evidence or proof of event order.
Beat or instrumental
Beat or instrumental
01 · Keep the exact files
Export audio and the project file. Keep optional stems, split sheets, licenses and a copy of what you send.
Records to keep: Audio files · Project file
Beat or instrumental
02 · Date the file’s code
Your device fingerprints the selected file or manifest. Dated follows an independent timestamp; Permanent follows Bitcoin anchoring.
An independent time, tied to the exact bytes.
Beat or instrumental
03 · Keep the evidence
Receipt meaningful versions before sending or selling. Keep the exact exported files and the separate agreement.
Keep the originals too. A changed or compressed copy has a different fingerprint.
Try a file. It stays here.
Make a test receipt on this device.
By making a receipt you agree to the Terms and Privacy Policy. The Bitcoin record is permanent.
or drop a file here
Real cases: why the saved copy matters.
Real cases where dated records mattered. We don’t claim a time receipt would have changed the result.
US · 2025
Posting a beat does not prove sampling
A producer said a song used his beat. He showed no proof that its sounds were copied, and posting it online did not show access. The court kept the artist's win.
Summarized on Oct 29, 2026
Read the decision ›US · 2005
Giving away a beat can grant permission
A producer said a song used his beat without permission. His own account showed he gave it away for a song with no pay expected. The court kept his loss and the fees and penalties against the producer.
This is a nonprecedential appeal; the supplied verification did not fully read the final fees and sanctions section.
Summarized on Oct 29, 2026
Read the decision ›What courts, schemes and regulators say.
Positions below refer to the cited rule or record type, not endorsement of Timevolt. This service is not represented as an eIDAS qualified timestamp provider. A non-qualified timestamp does not receive the qualified timestamp presumption.
US Copyright Office and federal courts (17 U.S.C. 411(a), 412)
17 USC 412 sets registration-timing conditions for statutory damages and attorney’s fees. A separate dated file does not replace registration or establish eligibility for those remedies.
A time receipt does not replace registration. It shows that these exact bytes existed by the witnessed time; it does not establish when the beat was created or who created it.
Source summary as of 2026-10-28. Check the current source and applicable local rules.
Read the sourceUS Copyright Office, Circular 56A
Explains that sound recording and musical-work copyrights are separate. One application can cover both only if ownership is the same.
The circular distinguishes the two copyright claims. Keep clear records of the work and version covered by each registration; it does not assess Timevolt.
Source summary as of 2026-10-28. Check the current source and applicable local rules.
Read the sourceCourts generally (trade commentary on poor man's copyright and metadata)
Commentary says mailing yourself a copy has no US legal recognition, and file dates are easy to change.
This comes from vendor and forum sources, not a rule. No court guidance on third-party or blockchain timestamps for music was found.
Source summary as of 2026-10-28. Check the current source and applicable local rules.
Read the sourceOther ways to do this
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Proves / Doesn’t prove
Proves
A completed time receipt shows that the exact selected file existed by the independently witnessed time. You can check whether a later copy has the same bytes. It does not establish creation time, authorship, identity, event order, location or the truth of the contents.
Doesn’t prove
That you made the beat, that it is original or cleared of samples, that anyone heard it, or that you own it; a court still decides what weight a time receipt gets.
This does not show who wrote it, sample clearance, ownership, who heard it or the scope of a license. Registration is separate.
These are the bounds of a completed proof. The local tester does not establish any time. The chosen court, scheme or regulator decides what to accept.
Questions, answered plainly.
Your file stays on your device. During normal receipt creation, your device sends a randomized code made from its fingerprint, plus encrypted recovery data. It doesn't send the plain fingerprint or the random value that opens the code. Keep the original file and the complete receipt for checking. Privacy Policy.
Is a time receipt the same as copyright registration?
No. A time receipt dates your exact files. Registration is a government filing, and in the US you generally must have one before you can sue for infringement.
Source summary as of October 30, 2026. Check the current source and its scope.
Context for this answerDo you upload my beats?
Your file stays on your device. During normal receipt creation, your device sends a randomized code made from its fingerprint, plus encrypted recovery data. It doesn't send the plain fingerprint or the random value that opens the code. Keep the original file and the complete receipt for checking.
Why not just email the beat to myself?
An email shows a date, but that date is held by your own mailbox, and the message is easy to fake or edit. A time receipt is dated by an independent timestamp authority and then anchored in Bitcoin.
Source summary as of October 30, 2026. Check the current source and its scope.
Context for this answerDoes a receipt prove I made the beat?
A completed time receipt shows that the exact selected file existed by the independently witnessed time. You can check whether a later copy has the same bytes. It does not establish creation time, authorship, identity, event order, location or the truth of the contents.
Should I receipt the project file as well as the mp3?
Yes. The project file and stems show how the beat was built, which helps if someone claims they made it. Each file gets its own fingerprint, so changing any file changes its fingerprint.
Source summary as of October 30, 2026. Check the current source and its scope.
Context for this answerIf someone uses my beat, does a receipt win the case?
Not by itself. Courts also look at whether the other side had access to the beat, what you registered, and what you agreed to. In one appeals case the beat's owner lost partly because access was not shown. Anything you hand over casually can be read as a license.
Source summary as of October 30, 2026. Check the current source and its scope.
Context for this answerWhen should I get the receipt?
Before you first send, post or sell the beat, and again for each new version. It can only date files as they exist when you make the receipt.
What does it cost?
See the Pricing page for current US-dollar plans and allowances. Fast is paused. Purchases open when receipts open.
Source summary as of October 30, 2026. Check the current source and its scope.
Context for this answerThe file tester runs on your device. It does not issue a timestamp or take a payment.
Keep the records you already have.
Keep your original files and any existing official records while the receipt service is being prepared.