Fair Use Law & Copyright Copyright started in the late fifteenth century. Copyright is the property of the author who created the work. Only the author, or those deriving their rights through the author, can rightfully claim copyright. When a person copies your work without your permission you can rightfully claim your work by sueing them. You can only sue a person for copyright if you have proof that you made your work and you weren’t under another person's contract. You can’t sue a person whom you’ve signed a contract to work with them. There has been many copyrights over people stealing others music like Vanilla Ice. Vanilla ice was in a lawsuit because he stole Queen and David Bowie's 'Under Pressure' in
