Copy Constructor Needed with temp object

The following code only works when the copy constructor is available.

When I add print statements (via std::cout) and make the copy constructor available it is not used (I assume there is so compiler trick happening to remove the unnecessary copy).

But in both the output operator << and the function plop() below (where I create a temporary object) I don't see the need for the copy constructor. Can somebody explain why the language needs it when I am passing everything by const reference (or what I am doing wrong).

#include <iostream>

class N
{
    public:
        N(int)  {}
    private:
        N(N const&);
};

std::ostream& operator<<(std::ostream& str,N const& data)
{
    return str << "N\n";
}

void plop(std::ostream& str,N const& data)
{
    str << "N\n";
}

int main()
{
    std::cout << N(1);     // Needs copy constructor  (line 25)
    plop(std::cout,N(1));  // Needs copy constructor

    N    a(5);
    std::cout << a;
    plop(std::cout,a);
}

Compiler:

[Alpha:~/X] myork% g++ -v
Using built-in specs.
Target: i686-apple-darwin10
Configured with: /var/tmp/gcc/gcc-5646~6/src/configure --disable-checking --enable-werror --prefix=/usr --mandir=/share/man --enable-languages=c,objc,c++,obj-c++ --program-transform-name=/^[cg][^.-]*$/s/$/-4.2/ --with-slibdir=/usr/lib --build=i686-apple-darwin10 --with-gxx-include-dir=/include/c++/4.2.1 --program-prefix=i686-apple-darwin10- --host=x86_64-apple-darwin10 --target=i686-apple-darwin10
Thread model: posix
gcc version 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5646)

[Alpha:~/X] myork% g++ t.cpp
t.cpp: In function ‘int main()’:
t.cpp:10: error: ‘N::N(const N&)’ is private
t.cpp:25: error: within this context
t.cpp:10: error: ‘N::N(const N&)’ is private
t.cpp:26: error: within this con