ST EXPLAINS
Do users of streaming services have rights over music they listen to?
The Straits Times looks at issues involving intellectual property rights and digital streaming platforms
Sign up now: Get ST's newsletters delivered to your inbox
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.