One of the supposed justifications for the intellectual monopoly called copyright is that it drives creativity and culture. In the last few weeks alone we have had multiple demonstrations of why the opposite is true: copyright destroys culture, and not by accident, but wilfully. For example, the MTVNews.com site, along with its sister site CMT.com, …
If by “claim” you mean falsify authorship, I suspect this would still be illegal even without all the copyright laws.
Well, this is a problem.
You would be wrong, in the USA at least.
OK, well, that certainly should be illegal.