Here are details of the CODE conference happening in Cambridge UK in April this year. CODE, Collaboration and Ownership in the Digital Economy, addresses issues around intellectual property, distributed research teams, the role of the public sector in relation to funding of R&D and the emergence of virtual centres of excellence which present new challenges to conventional notions of ownership in the scientific, cultural and technological realm.

Confirmed speakers include:

• Richard Stallman
• Bruce Perens
• Michael Century
• Antoine Moreau
• Anne Nigten
• Bill Cornish
• Geert Lovink
• Christopher Kelty
• Roger Malina
• Alok Nandi
• Martha Woodmansee
• John Naughton
• Marilyn Strathern
• Drazen Pantic
• Rishab Aiyer Ghosh
• Bob Young
• Robin Mansell

Topics for discussion include:

• Recovering the Collective
• Copyright -v- Community
• Private Interests: Freedom & Control
• Distributing Knowledge: Reward and Responsibility
• a final plenary on the Future of Knowledge

The event will be accompanied by an associated programme of workshops, talks and exhibitions.

For more details send meail to bronac.ferran@artscouncil.org.uk or visit http:\\www.cl.cam.ac.uk\CODE