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Originally Posted by DawnFalcon
As a side note, if they have the potential to expire in that way, then moral rights need to be recognised worldwide. To be properly attributed as the author (and not when not), and to object to derogatory treatment - those rights should be non-transferable and lifelong.
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At least in the US and similar countries I'm pretty sure you're always allowed to object to derogatory treatment, I'm doing it right now when i spout off about unjust copyright laws. If you mean some sort of adaption the author doesn't like then no the ability to censor other people ends when copyright does.
As for worldwide, though the US may like to impose its rules on other countries whenever possible it's not really enforceable except by reciprocal copyright treaties which we do currently have in place though most of those are for life +50 the us only pushed it to life +70 because the disney cooperation was willing to buy some senators and rent the rest of them.
Attribution is a moral rule on expired copyright but not an enforceable one I don't see it being a huge problem computers and the internet being what they are you'd be able to check someone's work and see if it was really someone else's, public domain stuff would end up easily earchable becuse it'd be stored in places like project Gutenberg.