It seems to me that there should be some way for Google to see the
original creators content before it goes live to the internet; some sort of
pre-publishing protocol. Essentially tell the Googlebot "This is the content
I am planning to publish; have a look so you will know who created it first."
(I used to work on Google search quality.) In general, the problem with such systems is that scraper-writers use them much more diligently than original-content-writers.