In the article The history of Creative Commons (see website link in the resources section), there is a clear historic explanation of the origins of copyright and creative commons. Referencing a particular bloody outcome over a dispute over ownership of a book of psalms and its copy in 6^th century Ireland the scene is set for the first legal act in relation to copyright in the “Statute of Anne … (which) granted publishers legal protection against copies for limited period of time - 14 years - after which anyone was to free to reprint the content”.

Creative Commons Licensing was started at the turn of the millennium by a US not for profit (Creative Commons) with a purpose of expanding access to copyright material (while copyright is in force) under licence enabling “educational access and expanding the range of creative works available for others to build on legally and to share” (Wikipedia, accessed 28/7/22).

The learning outcomes in this quest relates to developing an understanding of copyright and how the use of creative commons licensing enables practitioners and consumers to access and share material safely covered by copyright. It provides an opportunity to look at this through different lenses -   historical and legal but critically to enable people to learn and share material.