Tate Britain is hosting a conference on "Creativity and the public domain" on Friday 7th and Saturday 8th October 2005, 11am - 5pm. Inspired by Free Software, which challenges conventional practices of authorship, ownership and distribution, this innovative congress explores the implications of those developments for art, visual culture and cultural production in general. Taking place across two days, the Congress will be structured through three themes of Governance, Creativity and Knowledge; and an array of international and UK participants - artists, theorists, academics and activists - will shape Open Congress through presentations, discussion, workshops and events.

The Congress includes Cory Doctorow - from the EFF, Lawrence Liang - Alternative Law Foundation, Mckenzie Wark - A Hacker Manifesto, Johanna Gibson, Libre Society, Trebor Scholz - The Institute of Distributed Creativity, Tiziana Terranova, Talkaoke, and Wireless London among many others.

For more details visit the website http://opencongress.omweb.org