Azerbaijan, Baku, 2 May / Trend corr. G.Jabiyev / Abutalib Samadov, Director of the Azerbaijani State Agency on the author rights, stated that the Agency has developed the list of stolen Azerbaijani music and submitted the document to the UN World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
Azerbaijan joined Bern convention on 'Protection of art and literature compositions', as well as Roma Conference on 'Protection of rights of singers, phonogram producers and broadcasting organizations'. Armenia also joined the aforesaid organizations. Under the conventions, each country-member must protect rights of other country citizens. This principle of protection of rights is called national regime.
Armenians succeeded opening of the sound-recording studio Ani-Records, which has been operating in the Russian Federation for many years and presents Azerbaijani music as Armenians.
Samadov stated that the judiciary bodies are responsible for providing of protection of rights under the international legislation. It means that in the case of violation of owner rights within the country then the person whose rights were violated could make a court appeal to local courts. However, the owner whose author rights were violated on the international level then he should make court appeal to courts of the country which violated his rights. Unfortunately, Azerbaijanis are deprived of the possibility to make court appeal to Armenian courts because of the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh. Armenia misappropriates this opportunity and steals material and moral values of Azerbaijan and presents them as Armenians. Samadov stated that he has appealed to the UN in order to inject changes in the international legislation and expressed confidence that the organization would consider the issue.
Samadov stated that the document developed by the Agency include the name of songs and composers stolen by Armenians and submitted it to WIPO. They are 'Sanada galmaz' by Tofig Guliyev, 'Ay giz' by Jahangir Jahangirov, 'Sachlaraina gul duzum' by Rauf Hajiyev, 'Na galmaz oldun' by Alakpar Tagiyev, 'Geja zanglari' by Eldar Mansurov, Maktab illari' by Aygun Samadzade, as well as popular dances 'Vokaliz' and folks - 'Vagzali', 'Yalli', 'Uzun dara', 'Mirzei', 'Gazagi''Tarakama', 'Sari galin', 'Khan bagi', 'Dali jeyran', and operas by Uzeir Hajibayov 'Arshin mal alan', 'O olmasin bu olsun' and 'Koroglu'.