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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