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ARMEN AZIZYAN: WIPO DOES NOT TAKE SERIOUSLY AZERBAIJAN'S ATTEMPTS TO CHARGE ARMENIA WITH STEALING ITS INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
arminfo
Monday, January 21, 17:55
Azerbaijan has undertaken one more attempt to charge Armenia with
stealing its intellectual property.
In an interview with Interfax-Azerbaijan Head of the Azeri Copyright
Agency Kamran Imamov accused Armenia of stealing all he could remember
at the moment: the epos, music, cuisine and "any other" (as he said)
intellectual property.
He said that they will complain to the World Intellectual Property
Organization (WIPO) and that they welcome the WIPO's efforts to adopt
relevant conventions during this year's diplomatic conference.
Head of the Intellectual Property Agency of Armenia Armen Azizyan told
ArmInfo on Monday that Imamov is bombarding the WIPO with complaints
that Armenia has stolen Azeri songs but they in the organization are
ignoring the claims.
Azizyan said that the WIPO's diplomatic conference will concern the
treaty of the blind and will not discuss other questions.
To recall, Azerbaijan has repeatedly tried to "call the bluff" of
the well-known composer Ara Gevorgyan and singer Sirusho. Following
the scandal raised by the Azeri mass media, Azerbaijan officially
apologized to Ara Gevorgyan for its allegations, and the apology was
passed via the Azerbaijani Embassy in Russia. Armenia's rightness was
also fully proved in the cases of Sirusho's songs "Shorora" and "Miayn
qez", which the Azeris were trying to present as the compositions of
Isa Melikov and other composers.
The situation with national cuisine is also sad for Azerbaijan. After
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev had stated that tolma was allegedly
an Azeri dish, Armenia successfully held 2 tolma festivals which
caused a big interest among the foreign mass media. In particular,
such TV channels as CNN and RTR said that tolma is a 3,000-year-old
Armenian dish, and the name of the dish derives from the old Armenian
word "toli" (grape-vine).
One cannot help touching on Imanov's statement concerning the national
epics. To recall, in 2012 the Armenian national epic "David of Sassoun"
was included in UNESCO's list, and this apparently upset not only
Turkey (as Sassoun is situated in the territory of modern Turkey),
but also Imanov himself.
From: A. Papazian
arminfo
Monday, January 21, 17:55
Azerbaijan has undertaken one more attempt to charge Armenia with
stealing its intellectual property.
In an interview with Interfax-Azerbaijan Head of the Azeri Copyright
Agency Kamran Imamov accused Armenia of stealing all he could remember
at the moment: the epos, music, cuisine and "any other" (as he said)
intellectual property.
He said that they will complain to the World Intellectual Property
Organization (WIPO) and that they welcome the WIPO's efforts to adopt
relevant conventions during this year's diplomatic conference.
Head of the Intellectual Property Agency of Armenia Armen Azizyan told
ArmInfo on Monday that Imamov is bombarding the WIPO with complaints
that Armenia has stolen Azeri songs but they in the organization are
ignoring the claims.
Azizyan said that the WIPO's diplomatic conference will concern the
treaty of the blind and will not discuss other questions.
To recall, Azerbaijan has repeatedly tried to "call the bluff" of
the well-known composer Ara Gevorgyan and singer Sirusho. Following
the scandal raised by the Azeri mass media, Azerbaijan officially
apologized to Ara Gevorgyan for its allegations, and the apology was
passed via the Azerbaijani Embassy in Russia. Armenia's rightness was
also fully proved in the cases of Sirusho's songs "Shorora" and "Miayn
qez", which the Azeris were trying to present as the compositions of
Isa Melikov and other composers.
The situation with national cuisine is also sad for Azerbaijan. After
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev had stated that tolma was allegedly
an Azeri dish, Armenia successfully held 2 tolma festivals which
caused a big interest among the foreign mass media. In particular,
such TV channels as CNN and RTR said that tolma is a 3,000-year-old
Armenian dish, and the name of the dish derives from the old Armenian
word "toli" (grape-vine).
One cannot help touching on Imanov's statement concerning the national
epics. To recall, in 2012 the Armenian national epic "David of Sassoun"
was included in UNESCO's list, and this apparently upset not only
Turkey (as Sassoun is situated in the territory of modern Turkey),
but also Imanov himself.
From: A. Papazian