December 9, 2022 (Los Angeles) – On Friday, December 9 at 11:30am PT, the AIMP Los Angeles Chapter hosted their Holiday Awards Luncheon and Annual Membership Meeting at Lawry’s in Beverly Hills, CA.

During the event, the Los Angeles Chapter presented its Publisher of the Year award to North Music Group (NMG). Based in Los Angeles, NMG is a full-service music rights management company that specializes in the administration of music compositions and sound recordings. Abby North is principal of NMG and a founder of Unchained Melody Publishing LLC. NMG represents over 100,000 musical works and sound recordings, including evergreen commercial and film/TV copyrights. It was created to work with families that control both composition and sound recording copyrights, providing them with a boutique, trusted rights management partner who can advise regarding estate issues, copyright and terminations, and ways to generate new revenue. While NMG’s catalog was born from these legacy copyrights, it has since expanded into current commercial works and sub-publishing of production music libraries.To facilitate its rights management, NMG has developed technology for CWR creation, royalty processing, and music IP/metadata tracking.

Additionally, the Los Angeles Chapter presented its Person of the Year award to Jay Cooper for his unwavering support for songwriters and publishers. Cooper is the Founder of the Los Angeles Entertainment Practice of Greenberg Traurig and focuses his practice on music industry, motion picture, television, Internet, multimedia, and intellectual property issues. He represents individuals and companies on intellectual property matters and contract negotiations,

including recording and publishing agreements for individual artists and composers; actor, director, producer, and writer agreements in film and television; executive employment agreements; complex acquisitions and sales of entertainment catalogs; production agreements on behalf of music, television, and motion picture companies, and all entertainment issues relative to the Internet and digital services. He has been named to Billboard’s 2022 Top Music Lawyers list from 2017-2022, the Chamber USA Guide from 2004-2022, and participated in Varietys Legal Impact Report in 2013 and 2022. He has also been listed as one of The Best Lawyers in America, Entertainment Law – Music; Entertainment – Motion Pictures and Television from 1987-2023.

“We are incredibly thankful to our Chapter members for their support this past year, and our luncheon is our opportunity to let them know,” said Teri Nelson Carpenter, President of the AIMP Los Angeles Chapter. “Our annual awards allow us the opportunity to showcase the amazing companies and individuals who work tirelessly for our songwriting and publishing community.”