This work is not an object of copyright according to the law of Azerbaijan Republic No.: 636-IVQD of April 30, 2013 on Copyright and Neighbouring rights; this image is in the public domain worldwide (details).

Article 5. Scope of Copyright

3. Copyright protection shall be granted only to the form of expression of a work and shall not apply to any ideas, processes, methods or mathematical concepts.

4. Copyright to a work is not connected with the property right to the material object on which the work is expressed.

Article 7. Objects not covered by copyright protection The following items shall not be objects of copyright:

• Official documents (laws, court decisions, other texts of legislative,
• administrative or judicial character) and their official translations;
• State emblems and official signs (flags, arms, anthems, orders,
• monetary signs and other State symbols and official signs);
• Folk creativity (folklore) expressions ;
• News of day, data about various events and the facts of information character

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Warning – This license tag cannot be applied to proposed official symbols and drafts of the formal documents, which can be copyrighted.

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LAW ON COPYRIGHT AND RELATED RIGHTS - full text (.pdf)

Article 4. Non-Protected Works

1. Copyright protection shall not be afforded to:
   a) expressions of traditional folklore and art;
   b) daily news or information on current facts and events;
   c) official documents: legal acts, treaties and the official translations thereof;
   d) official symbols and signs (flags, coats of arms, medals, coins);;
   e) political speeches, speeches delivered in the court;
   f) results obtained by technical means without the intervention of human creative activity.
2. Copyright shall not cover scientific discoveries, ideas, principles, methods, procedures, viewpoints, systems, ceremonies, scientific theories, mathematical formulas, statistical diagrams, rules of games, even if they are expressed, described, disclosed, commented in works.

This work is not an object of copyright according to the Law of Georgia No. 2388-Is of September 9, 1999 on Copyright and Neighbouring Rights

Article 5. Subject Matter Of Copyright

Copyright does not apply to ideas, methods, processes, systems, means, concepts, principles, discoveries and facts, even if they are expressed, described, explained, illustrated or embodied in a work

Article 8. Works To Which Copyright Does Not Apply

1. Copyright does not apply to the following works:

   a) official documents (laws, decisions of courts, other texts of administrative and normative character), as well as their official translations;

   b) official symbols of state (flag, emblem, anthem, award, monetary symbols, other official signs and symbols of state);

   c) information of events and facts.

2. When using the works mentioned in subparagraph "b" of this Article under the other persons name, it is possible to protect the right of author's name.

Full text of the Law: in English, in Georgian, in Russian.