SCOPE response

Decreasing Copyright Enforcement Costs: the Scope of a Graduated Response

The digitization of copyrighted goods and the dematerialization of their distribution over the Internet have caused a weakening of copyright, a key institution of the creative industries. One reason is that, during the broadband roll-out, copyright enforcement costs have become superior to the estimated benefits of copyright. This paper analyses the causes of this situation and suggests how a g...

The Scope of Man's Free Will

Scope & Outline

Parasitic scope

I propose the first strictly compositional semantic account of same. New data, including especially NP-internal uses such as two men with the same name, suggests that same in its basic use is a quantificational element taking scope over nominals. Given type-lifting as a generally available mechanism, I show that this follows naturally from the fact that same is an adjective. Independently-motiv...

Supporting Concurrent Design in Scope Supporting Concurrent Design in Scope

Concurrent design can be viewed as processes of collaboration, coordination and co-decision making within and between cross-functional teams. Based on this view we argue that an appropriate integration of information sharing and activity synchronization approaches is necessary and beneficial for a concurrent design support environment. This paper investigates support for defining a set of coord...