Are you serious? You said "No-one ought be allowed to...". Well, to do those kinds of things, we need laws, and ways of enforcing those laws. So, to enforce

Are you serious? You said "No-one ought be allowed to...". Well, to do those kinds of things, we need laws, and ways of enforcing those laws. So, to enforce "mandatory attribution" to an author of a work, would require some sort of legal mechanism to do so. Protecting the author's "moral right" involves him or her having some sort of protection by the law, in the same vein the law protects citizens from rape, murder, and other violent acts. My point being, simply because there is a law or a "moral right" to prevent certain acts, does not and cannot stop those acts from occurring, although it may reduce the frequency of those acts. Lastly, I was unaware this thread mentioned anything about "getting rid of copyrights", particularly when you "think it is necessary to recognize an author's moral right to the work or, if you wish, mandatory attribution."