Azerbaijan, Baku / Тrend corr A. Gasimova / A lawsuit may be made against US's EYE RECORDS sound-recording company for violation of a copyright by a famous Azerbaijani composer.
On 15 September, Russian ORT TV channel broadcast the 'Ice Age' program where figure skaters Sasha Savelyeva and Alexander Sakhnovski performed a dance under a musical illustration entitled "Armenian Dance' which in reality is a work of Azerbaijani composer Tofig Guliyev called 'Sana da Galmaz'.
This fact gives all juridical grounds to the Azerbaijan Republic's official bodies Tofig Guliyev to initiate a lawsuit against the violators of the copyright - US's EYE RECORDS company and the producers of the disk, Ara Gevorkyan and Sarkis Berberyan, according to the report of the Azerbaijani Embassy in Russia.
The report says the Azerbaijani Ambassador to Russia, Polad Bulbuloghlu, who is connected with the chief trainer of the TV program, honoured master of sports, the Champion of Europe and the World in Figure Skating, Alexander Zhulin. Azerbaijani Ambassador voiced his bewilderment with regard to the incident. "Zhulin called it an unfortunate misunderstanding and expressed his regret in connection with the incident. He made it clear that the melody used for the dance performance was suggested to him by his students. They found the melody in an ANI disk produced in the United States in 1999," the report says.
The cover of the ANI disk contained the name of an Armenian composer, conductor and performer Ara Gevorkyan. The disk contains 10 melodies, the 5th of which is named ARTSAKH and that is the exact melody used for the performance of the aforementioned dance, Zhulin said. The cover of the disk depicts that the disk was produced in the United States by EYE RECORDS company in 1999.