Attribution is a pretty standard component of the moral rights associated with copyright in many non-US countries. In the US, moral rights (versus economic rig

Attribution is a pretty standard component of the moral rights associated with copyright in many non-US countries. In the US, moral rights (versus economic rights) are hardly protected at all. For the most part they are limited to riding the coat-tails of economic rights. Yet, as your example shows, the right of attribution is the kind of right that many people naturally perceive as a "fair" part of copyright, much more fair than the right to control distribution.