I'm all for having social contracts granting those who make (or synthesize from the ideas of others) new "creative content" time-limited monopolies, but I've ne

I'm all for having social contracts granting those who make (or synthesize from the ideas of others) new "creative content" time-limited monopolies, but I've never understood the idea that compensation for "creative work" is somehow a natural, inalienable right. It's a good bargain for society to have a construct that creates compensation for "creators", to be sure, but I just can't buy the idea that there's some quasi-moral component it. (I do strongly get behind the idea that falsely claiming credit for the creative work of others is immoral, but that's a different thing than being somehow "entitled" to compensation. That's a completely different animal to me.)