BAKU, Azerbaijan, April 22. Chairman of the
Board of the Intellectual Property Agency of Azerbaijan, Kamran
Imanov, spoke about the work on exposing Armenian falsifications
and plagiarism, Trend reports.
In an interview with reporters on the sidelines of a conference
on the theme "Ancient texts and classical sources expose Armenian
forgeries and fabrications or about ancient Turan and proto-Turkic
tribes in the territories of Asia Minor and their relations with
the Caucasus" being held in Baku on the occasion of the World Book
and Copyright Day, he noted that the song "Intizar" (music by
composer Nushaba Muradova, lyrics by poetess Sudaba Shafa)
performed by People's Artist of Azerbaijan Elmira Rahimova was
posted on the YouTube platform under the title "Ter Hisus Ari"
performed by Armenian musician Artash Asatryan as an example of
Armenian music. The Armenian performer introduced himself as the
author of words and music.
"New Year's song (music by composer Gular Hasanova, lyrics by
poet Baba Vaziroghlu) performed by People's Artist Brilliant
Dadashova was posted on YouTube under the title "Qez Hamar"
performed by another Armenian singer Tigran Asatryan. Armenian
harmonicist Gagik Stepanyan, who used the music of the Azerbaijani
songs 'Bəs nə deyim', 'Ay bəri bax', 'Niyə yox deyirsən', and
'Güman yeri var', prepared medleys and placed them on YouTube, but
didn't specify the names of the songs and authors. The Cypriot
singer of Armenian origin, Hovik Demirchyan, also appropriated the
song "'Qal, sənə qurban' (music by composer Alakbar Taghiyev,
lyrics by poet Mikayil Mushfig), performed it as an Armenian song
in Greek under the title 'Hara gedir', and distributed it on the
YouTube platform.
As a result of measures taken by the agency, these cases of
plagiarism by Armenians were stopped. Thus, the aforementioned
performances of Artash Asatryan, Tigran Asatryan, Gagik Stepanyan,
and Hovik Demirchyan, which they presented as Armenian works, were
removed from the YouTube platform," Imanov said.
