The Pacific Arts Corporation, Inc. is a company formed by Michael Nesmith circa 1974 to manage and develop media projects.
Pacific Arts Corporation, Inc. began as Pacific Arts Productions, Inc. when incorporated on October 18, 1974, as a California corporation by Michael Nesmith (incorporated by Nesmith's accountant, Howard Leitner of Leitner, Zander, Sniderman & Co., Los Angeles).
Between 1974 and 1981, Pacific Arts Productions created a large library of various musical artists and built its own independent record distribution system.
In 1992, Pacific Arts began releasing promotional material on the then-upcoming video, Michael Nesmith Live at the Britt Festival.
Following the success of Elephant Parts, Pacific Arts focused its attention on producing full-length motion pictures.
Its film Repo Man was released in 1984, for Michael Nesmith served as executive producer under its still-active subsidy, Zoomo Productions, Inc.
Throughout the 1980s, Pacific Arts acquired what was at the time the world's largest catalog of non-theatrical video titles, and set up its own independent distribution system.
Lawsuits were filed: by Nesmith and Pacific Arts against PBS for breach of contract, intentional misrepresentation (fraud), intentional concealment (fraud), negligent misrepresentation, and interference with contract; and by PBS against Nesmith and Pacific Arts for lost royalties.
They sought approximately $5 million in disputed royalties, advances, guarantees, and license fees for programs and the use of the PBS logo from the defendants Pacific Arts and Nesmith.
Henry Gradstein, lead attorney for Nesmith, contended in a brief that the company's video rights were worth enough for it to have paid off any proper debts to the producers.
The jury resolved the outstanding license fee issues by ordering Pacific Arts and Nesmith to pay approximately $1.2 million to American Documentaries for The Civil War, about $230,000 to WGBH, and $150,000 to WNET.
Following the ruling, Nesmith expressed his personal disappointment with PBS and was quoted by BBC News as stating "It's like finding your grandmother stealing your stereo.
Pacific Arts has produced hundreds of live performances in the virtual world of Videoranch3D, including shows with Nesmith performing[14] To continue developing the multimedia platform, Pacific Arts published the audiobook of Nesmith's first novel, The Long Sandy Hair of Neftoon Zamora.
In June 2009, Videoranch began selling a serialized version of Nesmith's novel, The America Gene, beginning one chapter at a time.
In January 2007, Pacific Arts built a special production stage in Sand City, California for producing live performances and delivering them into virtual worlds.