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LASSETER'S STOCK OPTIONS AT PIXAR BEING PROBED Friday, February 9 2007 
Steve
Jobs's
signature
appeared
on
an
employment
contract
between
his
Pixar
Animation
and
director
John
Lasseter
on
March
20,
2001
that
included
a
stock-options
grant
dated
Dec.
6,
2000,
a
date
that
marked
the
yearly
low
for
the
stock,
the
Wall
Street
Journal
reported
today
(Friday),
citing
a
person
familiar
with
the
matter.
By
the
time
the
contract
was
signed
in
March,
the
stock
had
already
risen
24
percent.
In
reporting
on
the
deal,
which
(more)APPLE DETERMINED TO RULE IN MOVIES, TOO Wednesday, September 27 2006 
Apple
Chairman
Steve
Jobs
unveiled
a
prototype
of
his
company's
iTV
settop
box
months
ahead
of
its
availability
as
"a
warning
shot
across
Hollywood's
bow,"
according
to
Fortune
magazine
senior
editor
Peter
Lewis.
Writing
in
the
current
issue,
Lewis
concludes
that
Jobs
wanted
to
demonstrate
to
studio
executives
that
the
iTV
unit,
which
will
deliver
downloaded
movies
directly
to
TV
sets
will
give
Apple
the
ability
to
dominate
the
online
movie
business,
just
as
its
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As far as the Walt Disney Co. is concerned, Steve Jobs was not involved "in any intentional or deliberate acts of misconduct" when he was the chairman of Pixar Animation. In a statement issued on Friday, Disney Chairman John Pepper appeared to be addressing reports that Jobs might have approved backdating options for top Pixar executives prior to the sale of the company to Disney. The matter is currently being scrutinized by federal regulators, who are also looking into similar backdated options issued to executives at Apple, Inc., which Jobs continues to head as chairman.
