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1. 1. Conference & Festival | Austin Film Festival

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   Published on: 10/9/2007   Last Visited: 1/24/2008

   William Nix, Chairman & CEO, Lone Star Entertainment Ventures

2. 2. First Wall Street Capital International : : Corporate

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   Published on: 6/19/2005   Last Visited: 6/19/2005

   WILL NIX Managing Director, Entertainment, Media & Sports, Intellectual Property wnix@firstwallst.com
   
   William Nix is a Managing Director of First Wall Street Capital International. Mr. Nix is also Chief Operating Officer (COO) and corporate secretary of Pegasus Entertainment International, LLC, a motion picture, television, music, interactive gaming, theater and live event entertainment content venture fund. Pegasus works to raise capital and serves as executive producer all entertainment media, but is currently particularly focused on children's music and faith-based/family entertainment projects. Pegasus is also exploring, through the corporation Premiere Multimedia Entertainment, the development of a digital entertainment center studio in Austin, Texas and the development.
   
   He is Co-Chair of the BakerBotts L.L.P. Entertainment, Media and Sports Law Practice Group for six years and represented clients in intellectual property, entertainment, sports, and Internet/new media law. His clients ranged from motion picture, television, and video production companies and producers to directors, actors, screenwriters, authors, musicians, entertainers, and professional athletes and sports agencies. Mr. Nix also represented Internet software production and delivery companies and handled licensing, merchandising, sponsorship, franchising, and other intellectual property matters, litigation in the federal courts and administrative proceedings with the Copyright Office of the Library of Congress and the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Prior to joining Baker Botts L.L.P., Mr. Nix was a Partner in the law firm of Frankfurt, Garbus, Klein & Selz, P.C., specializing in the same areas.
   
   Mr. Nix is the former Vice-President of Legal and Business Affairs for NBA Properties, Inc., where he had worldwide legal and business responsibilities for the commercial development, marketing, and protection of the trademarked and copyrighted properties of the NBA and its teams. This included the sponsorship and consumer product areas of licensed merchandise, publishing, trading cards, and new media such as CD-ROM/interactive games, " edumedia " and online programming, and other services. Mr. Nix was also involved with NBA Entertainment's global marketing of its video, broadcast, satellite, and cable television programming and one of the original Internet executive group that created and launched the NBA.com web site for the league and its teams. He also worked closely, as a leader in the Coalition to Protect Sports Logos (CAPS) with the General Counsel and other representatives of the NFLP, MLBP, NHLE and NBA licensees, sponsors and international NBA Offices. Individually and collectively their collaborated to register and protect their respective trademarks and copyrights globally, including pioneering the development and implementation of their worldwide security hang-tag, field-auditing and enforcement programs.
   
   Before joining NBA Properties, Mr. Nix was with the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) for sixteen years. In his most recent position, he served as Senior Vice-President and Chief Operating Officer of its Worldwide Anti-Piracy Division. This group guards the copyrights and trademarks against counterfeiting, illegal duplication, broadcast/cable/satellite signal theft and unauthorized performances, in all media, for the major motion picture and television studios (Disney, Paramount, Sony/Columbia-TriStar, Orion Pictures, Fox, MGM, NBC Universal and Time Warner) in the courts, the national legislatures and before global multilateral groups in Geneva such as the World Intellectual Property Organization(WIPO), the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), the World Trade Organization(WTO), which administers the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade's (GATT) Uraguay Round Intellectual Property provisions, as well as the European Commission in Brussels. In Washington, D.C. he actively worked with MPAA President, Jack Valenti, to obtain new legislation from the Congress, federal enforcement assistance from the U.S. Department of Justice, the Commerce Department and with the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR), the active monitoring and compliance of other nations with the provisions of the Generalized Systems of Preferences' (GSP), the North American Free Trade Agreement's (NAFTA) and the Omnibus Trade Reform Act's Intellectual Property, broadcast, cable and satellite provisions to cross-border and national infringements of rights. Mr. Nix frequently testified before Congressional committees such as the Senate Judiciary Committee, the House Subcommittee on Commerce, Consumer Protection and Competitiveness as well as the International Trade Commission (ITC). He also managed a global civil/criminal investigation/ litigation docket of thousands of cases on behalf of the studios. During his tenure, he engineered the expansion of this industry enterprise to one that is currently active in over 65 countries, with over 500 employees and representatives, and which has a $25 million annual operating budget.
   
   Prior to being named division COO, Mr. Nix served as the MPAA's Deputy General Counsel, handled general litigation matters in the antitrust, trade practice, constitutional law, and general corporate areas. He was also counsel to the MPAA's Classification and Rating Administration and its Advertising Code and the MPAA Title Registration Bureau, and was the Chairman of its Committee on Copyright and Literary Property. He was a member of the MPAA's Executive Management Committee for General Corporate Affairs.
   
   Mr. Nix has an A.B. degree from Georgetown University; an M.A. degree from Antioch University; a J.D. from Hofstra University and a L.L.M degree from New York University School of Law and has done post-graduate work at Columbia University and in the Harvard/Tufts/MIT Center for Negotiation Studies. He has published and lectured widely, and been interviewed extensively by the television, radio, and print press in the United States and internationally. He is a lifetime voting-member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) and the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences, and served on its 1999 Documentary Feature Film Award Nominating Committee, the New York New Media Association (NYNMA), and New York Women in Film and Television (NYWIFT). Mr. Nix was an adjunct professor, teaching sports law at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University.
   
   Mr. Nix is conversant in French, Spanish and spoken Japanese.

3. 3. William Nix | Austin Film Festival

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   Published on: 8/22/2006   Last Visited: 10/31/2007

   William Nix
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   William Nix is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Lone Star Entertainment Ventures, LLC. (LSEV), a motion picture, television, music,  interactive games and live entertainment and event content venture group. LSEV works to raise capital and executive produce in all major entertainment media.  LSEV is also exploring the development of a digital entertainment center studio in Austin, Texas and working on tax credit and rebate incentive legislation for Texas to foster such developments.
   
   He was also the former co-chair of the BakerBotts L.L.P. Entertainment, Media and Sports Law Practice Group where he represented clients in intellectual property, entertainment, sports, and Internet/new media law. His clients ranged from motion picture, television, and video production companies and producers to directors, actors, screenwriters, authors, musicians, entertainers, and professional athletes and sports agencies. Representative engagements in these areas of practice are listed below.
   
   Mr. Nix also represented Internet software production and delivery companies and handles licensing, merchandising, sponsorship, franchising, and other intellectual property matters, litigation in the federal courts and administrative proceedings with the Copyright Office of the Library of Congress and the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
   
   Prior to joining Baker Botts L.L.P., Mr. Nix was a Partner in the law firm of Frankfurt, Garbus, Klein & Selz, P.C., specializing in the same areas as his practice at Baker Botts.
   
   Mr. Nix is the former Vice President of Legal and Business Affairs for NBA Properties, Inc., where he had worldwide legal and business responsibilities for the commercial development, marketing, and protection of the trademarked and copyrighted properties of the NBA and its teams. This included the sponsorship and consumer product areas of licensed merchandise, publishing, trading cards, and new media such as CD-ROM/interactive games, “edumedia” and online programming, and other services. Mr. Nix was also involved with NBA Entertainment’s global marketing of its video, broadcast, satellite, and cable television programming and one of the original Internet executive group that created and launched the NBA.com web site for the league and its teams. He also worked closely, as a leader in the Coalition to Protect Sports Logos (CAPS) with the General Counsel and other representatives of the NFLP, MLBP, NHLE and NBA licensees, sponsors and international NBA Offices. Individually and collectively their collaborated to register and protect their respective trademarks and copyrights globally, including pioneering the development and implementation of their worldwide security hang-tag, field-auditing and enforcement programs.
   
   Before joining NBA Properties, Mr. Nix was with the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) for sixteen years. In his most recent position, he served as Senior Vice-President and Chief Operating Officer of its Worldwide Anti-Piracy Division. This group guards the copyrights and trademarks against counterfeiting, illegal duplication, broadcast/cable/satellite signal theft and unauthorized performances, in all media, for the major motion picture and television studios (Disney, Paramount, Sony/Columbia-TriStar, Orion Pictures, Fox, MGM, NBC Universal and Time Warner) in the courts, the national legislatures and before global multilateral groups in Geneva such as the World Intellectual Property Organization(WIPO), the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), the World Trade Organization(WTO), which administers the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade’s (GATT) Uraguay Round Intellectual Property provisions, as well as the European Commission in Brussels. In Washington, D.C. he actively worked with MPAA President, Jack Valenti, to obtain new legislation from the Congress, federal enforcement assistance from the U.S. Department of Justice, the Commerce Department and with the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR), the active monitoring and compliance of other nations with the provisions of the Generalized Systems of Preferences’ (GSP), the North American Free Trade Agreement’s (NAFTA) and the Omnibus Trade Reform Act’s Intellectual Property, broadcast, cable and satellite provisions to cross-border and national infringements of rights. Mr. Nix frequently testified before Congressional committees such as the Senate Judiciary Committee, the House Subcommittee on Commerce, Consumer Protection and Competitiveness as well as the International Trade Commission (ITC). He also managed a global civil/criminal investigation/ litigation docket of thousands of cases on behalf of the studios. During his tenure, he engineered the expansion of this industry enterprise to one that is currently active in over 65 countries, with nearly 500 employees and representatives, and which has a $25 million annual operating budget.
   
   Prior to being named division COO, Mr. Nix served as the MPAA’s Deputy General Counsel, handling general litigation matters in the antitrust, trade practice, constitutional law, and general corporate areas. He was also counsel to the MPAA’s Classification and Rating Administration and its Advertising Code and the MPAA Title Registration Bureau, and was the Chairman of its Committee on Copyright and Literary Property. He was a member of the MPAA’s Executive Management Committee for General Corporate Affairs.
   
   Mr. Nix has published and lectured widely, and been interviewed extensively by the television, radio, and print press in the United States and internationally. He is a lifetime voting-member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences, and served on its 1999 Documentary Feature Film Award Nominating Committee, the New York New Media Association (NYNMA), and New York Women in Film and Television (NYWIFT).
   
   Mr. Nix was an adjunct professor of law at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University.
   
   Mr. Nix is conversant in French, Spanish and spoken Japanese.