4R Learning Challenge / by Catherine Daniel. #LiDA103 In this blog post, I explore how my course learnings are shaping how I consider issues around Open Licensing and Creative Commons. As I have progressed through this course, I have been reminded of copyright's origins and orginal purpose - a right to copy - ( The Statute of Anne), and reading the Berne Convention and associated treaties has highlighted the dispartities and contradictions in and across jurisdictional copyright regimes. Clearly, Creative Commons the organisation and the six main Creative Commons licences are challenging the entrenched All Rights Reserved system with a more globally attuned regime more aligned with the scholary sharing ethos but as David Wiley reminds us, this doesn't come without its own set of challenges - " ...while the choice...to use licenses that include requirements and restrictions can optimize...ability to accomplish...local goals, the choice typically harms the global goals