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1964 5c American Music
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U.S. #1252
5¢ American Music
Issue Date: October 15, 1964
City: New York, NY
Quantity: 126,970,000
Printed by: Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Printing Method: Giori Press
Perforations: 11
Color: Red, black, and blue
This stamp was printed on a Giori press, a method that let the Bureau of Engraving and Printing apply its red, black, and blue in a single pass rather than several separate print runs, giving it sharper color separation than most stamps of that era. It used granite paper, a special stock flecked with fibers that the Bureau of Engraving and Printing used only occasionally. The central image was based on an 18th-century vignette meant to evoke the era of America's founding rather than the 1960s. This stamp was issued at ASCAP's New York headquarters to mark the organization's 50th anniversary.
On February 13, 1914, a group of composers and publishers founded the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers, known as ASCAP, in New York City. For years composers earned most of their income from selling printed sheet music, but by the early 1900s that music was also being performed in restaurants and nightclubs, which profited from the entertainment without paying the people who wrote the songs.
Composer Victor Herbert helped push the issue into the spotlight. After hearing one of his own songs played in a hotel without payment, in violation of the 1909 copyright law, he set out to organize composers so they could enforce their rights collectively. ASCAP built a catalog of its members' works and required anyone using that music to pay for a license, rather than charging per song. Restaurants and nightclubs pushed back hard at first, some threatening to drop live music altogether, but ASCAP won key court victories, including the 1917 case Herbert v. Shanley, which upheld composers' right to be paid when their work was performed publicly.
U.S. #1252
5¢ American Music
Issue Date: October 15, 1964
City: New York, NY
Quantity: 126,970,000
Printed by: Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Printing Method: Giori Press
Perforations: 11
Color: Red, black, and blue
This stamp was printed on a Giori press, a method that let the Bureau of Engraving and Printing apply its red, black, and blue in a single pass rather than several separate print runs, giving it sharper color separation than most stamps of that era. It used granite paper, a special stock flecked with fibers that the Bureau of Engraving and Printing used only occasionally. The central image was based on an 18th-century vignette meant to evoke the era of America's founding rather than the 1960s. This stamp was issued at ASCAP's New York headquarters to mark the organization's 50th anniversary.
On February 13, 1914, a group of composers and publishers founded the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers, known as ASCAP, in New York City. For years composers earned most of their income from selling printed sheet music, but by the early 1900s that music was also being performed in restaurants and nightclubs, which profited from the entertainment without paying the people who wrote the songs.
Composer Victor Herbert helped push the issue into the spotlight. After hearing one of his own songs played in a hotel without payment, in violation of the 1909 copyright law, he set out to organize composers so they could enforce their rights collectively. ASCAP built a catalog of its members' works and required anyone using that music to pay for a license, rather than charging per song. Restaurants and nightclubs pushed back hard at first, some threatening to drop live music altogether, but ASCAP won key court victories, including the 1917 case Herbert v. Shanley, which upheld composers' right to be paid when their work was performed publicly.
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