Azerbaijan sees drop in piracy rate - state agency

Azerbaijan sees drop in piracy rate - state agency

Azerbaijan is one of the countries that actively fights piracy, SIA reports.

Head of the State Copyright Agency of Azerbaijan Kamran Imanov stated at a scientific conference ‘Copyright protection in cyberspace’ which has opened in Baku.

Piracy in the area of book printing dropped from 61% to 30%, from 90% to 68% in the market of audiovisual products and from 96% to 87% in the area of software, Imanov said.

He also said Azerbaijan ranks 69th for copyright protection leaving behind Kazakhstan (by 4 points), Russia (44 points) and Ukraine (64th).

"The share of creative economy in GDP increased from 2.1% to 4.5% in 2012," he added.

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