Talk:Korea Financial Investment Association

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Copyright[edit]

I was the one to write both of the articles for the KOFIA. KOFIA is a self-regulatory organization created by the Korean government, therefore the information provided is in public domain and can be used as information for the public. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Seunghun Baek (talk • contribs) 23:51, 11 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Well, the Copyright Act of South Korea states that the following are not objects of copyright:

Constitution, laws, treaties, decrees, ordinances and rules
Notices, public notifications, directions and others similar to them issued by the state or local government
Judgments, decisions, orders, or rulings of courts, as well as rulings and decisions made by the administrative appeal procedures, or other similar procedures
Compilations or translations of works as referred to in Sub-paragraphs 1 to 3 which are produced by the state or local government and
Current news reports which transmit simple facts"

I don't know whether websites of statutory non-governmental bodies qualifies as #2. And in any case, we should write our own article rather than simply copying what the KOFIA says about itself, since that's an obvious conflict of interest. cab (talk) 06:42, 12 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

First of all Thank you for your interest in this article. KOFIA was created by the law and receives its authority from the government. It is operated with the fund collected from its member firms (all the financial firms operating in Korea). It is as much of government organization as FINRA is, therefore it is also as much of a public domain as FINRA is. Regarding the neutrality of the article, please let me know the exact wordings that seemed to be biased and I will fix it. I will also add more neutral news articles on the organization to update the page. Thank you again for your efforts and pointing out mistakes. I appreciate your help. Seunghun Baek (talk

If you're talking about the this FINRA, then it's not public domain at all. I'll make a note at copyright investigations and hopefully someone with some idea of Korean copyright can take a look at it, but unless we can definitively confirm that it's public domain I think all of the copied text will need to be removed and rewritten. VernoWhitney (talk) 21:35, 19 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]