Sing for your supper: How music rights became the smart play

A catalogue buy-out craze, new licensing methods and a surge in streaming have seen Bruce Springsteen, Taylor Swift and Justin Bieber cash in on a music rights revolution. Muireann Bolger finds out more.

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