Abby North is Principle of North Music Group LLC, worldwide publishing administrator for more than twenty catalogs with approximately 80,000 commercial and film and TV works. She is also Founder of Unchained Melody Publishing LLC, which she started after she began working with her father-in-law, Alex North’s, songs including “Spartacus,” “A Streetcar Named Desire,” “Viva Zapata” and many others. North has experience in all areas of music publishing, from creative to administrative. She regularly advises estates on catalog management, termination rights and strategic growth concepts and has vast experience in works registration, a strong knowledge of music publishing data and databases, and a background developing royalty processing and CWR works registration software tools. North is very involved with working groups and initiatives in the music licensing and metadata areas and she consults and advises companies in the financial sector and music industries regarding these issues. She is a member of the AIMP Board (Los Angeles Chapter), NMPA’s Team 100, the Television Academy, the Guild of Music Supervisors, the CCC, Women in Music, SONA, the SCL and MMF-US (Music Managers Forum-US).