Azerbaijan Files Complaint Against Armenians' Piracies

Azerbaijan has filed a complaint against Armenians' piracies to the World Intellectual Property Organizations, UNESCO and other international organizations. Baku sent information and related documents to the above-mentioned centers revealing the illegal copying of Azerbaijani folklore and works by Armenians.

The Copyright Agency of Azerbaijan organized a conference on the legal protection of national heritage. In a 2013-report at the end of the conference, the agency called for adopting some measures to prevent from misappropriation of intangible cultural heritage of the country as well as a centralized digitization of the cultural heritage and other intellectual property.

A book entitled "Armenian Foreign Fairy-tales" by Kamran Imanov, head of State Committee for Author's Rights, revealing Armenians' piracy was published in 2013 first in Azerbaijani and then in Russian and English languages.

The book was distributed abroad by the Foreign Ministry and the State Committee for Work with the Diaspora. Its electronic version was posted on the...