As it was thoroughly described in Chapter 2, Use Case, MRA had embarked on a digital transformation journey with the objective to truly become a digital organization capable of offering tailored (à la carte) offerings to artists, such as handling of an artist's online presence to on-demand distribution of an artist's digital media to music streaming services such as Spotify, Apple Music, Google Play Music, Amazon Prime Music, Pandora, and Deezer, to name a few.
Having fully acknowledged that their most valuable asset is, in fact, their media data, MRA wanted to materialize in such assets and determine that the quickest and most effective way to achieve this was by exposing a public API capable of providing access, on-demand, to MRA's Media Catalogue assets such as artists, songs, and albums:
The idea being that once...
