Do consumers own any intellectual property rights in a song from a streaming platform?

Streaming consumers only pay a monthly subscription fee to listen to hundreds of songs, but they also have no control over how long albums remain in the catalogues. PHOTO ILLUSTRATION: UNSPLASH
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SINGAPORE - With digital streaming platforms offering a wide catalogue of music, consumers need not hunt for CDs just to find their favourite tunes or expand their song collection.

Instead, they need only pay a monthly subscription fee to listen to hundreds, or even thousands, of albums from various genres via an app or Internet browser.

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