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>  The music industry has more people in government positions than the
> software industry? Maybe the music industry is more organized and thus
> they have succeeded in doing this better than the more disorganized
> software industry has been able to?

I think it's simply that authors' societies and other rights collection 
societies have been around for decades or even centuries (the French one was 
created in 1850). Music
has been in the spotlight for a long time and public, harsh debates about 
music rights and rights collection go back into the 19th century (and into 
the 18th century if one considers author's rights in general).

OTOH software started post-WWII as an obscure, marginal industry that only 
became mainstream in the late 1980s so property rights issues concerning 
software didn't emerge until very recently. Possibly the problems weren't 
noticeable until the late 1990s, when the web became popular or even the 
early 2000s with broadband access.

G.

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