CRESC in conjunction with ICS held a two-day international conference exploring aspects of ethics, moral economy and cultural value in the contexts of creative and cultural industries work. Over 80 delegates convened to hear panels on a diverse range of topics including media production ethics, visual moralities, virtues, goods and cultural practices, immaterial labour and networked moralities. As reports on the closure of the News of the World filtered around the assembly, the value of exploring the extent to which moral and ethical considerations interact with cultural economic concerns was further underscored. Keynote speakers included Russell Keat (Edinburgh), who reprised a critique of MacIntyre’s After Virtue in order to reflect the internal goods of cultural work, Susan Christopherson (Cornell) who examined industry responses to financialization and the fragile politics of labour organizing in US film, and Andrew Sayer (Lancaster) who challenged the assembly to consider whether the existence and organization of professional creative work was defensible in terms of contributive justice. Further contributors examined the politics of internships, free and gifted labour, child exploitation in television production, the labour process in new media, and moral economies of publishing, pornography and film production. As well as the contributions from precarious labour groups, activists and commentators, delegates were also offered the premiere of Philip Schlesinger’s and Charlotte Waelde’s short film Living on Performance, an examination of the working lives of dancers and musicians inspired by their recent AHRC project Music and Dance – Beyond Copyright Text.