When Copyright Transforms the Right to Remember

Images of the "We Are Our Mountains" monument in occupied Artsakh were removed from Wikimedia Commons, which now warns against uploading new photos of it because Azerbaijan's copyright regime is said to lack adequate freedom of panorama. The article argues that the monument's legal status changed even though the sculpture itself did not move. Wikimedia's volunteer-written advice reportedly held that images of monuments from Azerbaijan and Artsakh/Nagorno-Karabakh were not allowed, and volunteers deleted the images. The article also argues that the sculpture, created in 1967 by Sargis Baghdasaryan, may be in the public domain under Azerbaijan's law, and that Azerbaijan's misuse of it could violate the creator's moral rights.