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Survey on Intellectual Property
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I've been busy on a college project involving intellectual property, peer-to-peer technologies and piracy. I would appreciate it if readers could spend around 10 minutes completing this 26 question survey. (and observe how long it would take to collate the maximum of 250 responses for this free survey tool, SurveyGizmo.)
Link to the survey (will open in a new window)
Note: There is a bit of a Singaporean focus here for this group project though.
Thanks to all who participate(d)!
Edit 1: Some 24 hours later, more than a hundred have responded...
Edit 2: See the progress here, along with some preliminary results.
Edit 3: The survey has been closed. Thank you all who have responded!
Filed under 'zz - Others (pre-2008)' | Posted on 17 Oct 2007 (Wed) by Gary Kwong at 3:20 PM. (GMT+8)
Comments
took the survey, just wanted to let you know that a couple questions were (slightly) unclear:
question 25 doesn't say whether the software is supposed to be free or paid
26 leaves out lots of software models including advertising and donation based.
and before i started taking notes i felt like there was something to do with patents that wasn't very clear. But i don't remember what it was.
anyway, cheers.
Posted by: quodlibetor at October 17, 2007 4:08 PM
tried to take the survey but the survey site is timing out for me.
Posted by: eh at October 17, 2007 4:14 PM
I couldn't really answer question 26 as it doesn't offer the "right" answer. Always give the possibility to not answer a question, otherwise your results will be useless. I've had to choose "offer more features" because nothing applied and otherwise I wouldn't have been able to finish the questionnaire.
For question 26 there's a "offer paid support" option missing.
Posted by: Arthur at October 17, 2007 4:58 PM
In addition to the above comments:
7. You left out "none of the above" - I might use online sources like an API reference, but I do not include them in my code.
10. This question makes no sense. Perhaps you meant something like "How do you normally get music onto your computer, other than buying physical CDs?" - although then the 'CD ripping' option doesn't make much sense... hmm...
Posted by: Screwtape at October 17, 2007 7:47 PM
eh: It's working fine now. You could try again.
quodlibetor & Arthur:
Thanks for the feedback regarding Q26. We'd improve next time!
Screwtape:
about Q7, we were referring more about literary text more than other sources. It could have been made clearer though.
Q10, thanks for the feedback too, we'd work on our English as well!
All these feedback would prove invaluable to our survey designing skills. A wholehearted thanks to all who have done up the survey so far!
Posted by: Gary Kwong at October 17, 2007 8:20 PM
The survey seems to assume that all music/movies/software downloads are illegal, and there is no free multimedia stuff.
Posted by: Aleksej at October 17, 2007 9:16 PM
That is, neither libre, nor freeware, of both of which there is a lot.
I answered as if it didn't have that false assumption.
So, did it?
Posted by: Aleksej at October 17, 2007 9:18 PM
Aleksej: downloading materials for free in the context of the questions covers everything in general, whether legal or not.
"I answered as if it didn't have that false assumption."
So yup, you got it spot on.
Posted by: Gary Kwong at October 17, 2007 11:08 PM
Please share the results!
Posted by: at October 17, 2007 11:08 PM
Anonymous: I'll be putting some of the results online after everything has settled.
Just wondering which questions will be the most eagerly-anticipated ones... :)
Posted by: Gary Kwong at October 17, 2007 11:10 PM
Yay :)
Posted by: Aleksej at October 17, 2007 11:17 PM
One of the questions asks whether Singapore copyright law protects copyrighted content enough, with a range of strongly disagree to strongly agree.
The missing option is "don't know." I have no idea how Singapore copyright law differs from the laws I am familiar with.
Posted by: Tack at October 18, 2007 2:47 AM
3 would have denoted neutral. =)
Posted by: Gary Kwong at October 18, 2007 7:05 AM
