Mediocre film The Matrix PLAGIARIZED from BLACK WOMAN

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Dr. Killjoy: Oct 9, 2012

Wow, really makes you think!

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Monday, October 4th 2004 ended a six-year dispute involving Sophia Stewart, the Wachowski Brothers, Joel Silver and Warner Brothers. Stewart's allegations, involving copyright infringement and racketeering, were received and acknowledged by the Central District of California, Judge Margaret Morrow residing.

Stewart, a New Yorker who has resided in Salt Lake City for the past five years, will recover damages from the films, The Matrix I, II and III, as well as The Terminator and its sequels. She will soon receive one of the biggest payoffs in the history of Hollywood, as the gross receipts of both films and their sequels total over 2.5 billion dollars.

Stewart filed her case in 1999, after viewing the Matrix, which she felt had been based on her manuscript, "The Third Eye," copyrighted in 1981. In the mid-eighties Stewart had submitted her manuscript to an ad placed by the Wachowski Brothers, requesting new sci-fi works.

According to court documentation, an FBI investigation discovered that more than thirty minutes had been edited from the original film, in an attempt to avoid penalties for copyright infringement. The investigation also stated that 'credible witnesses employed at Warner Brothers came forward, claiming that the executives and lawyers had full knowledge that the work in question did not belong to the Wachowski Brothers.' These witnesses claimed to have seen Stewart's original work and that it had been 'often used during preparation of the motion pictures.' The defendants tried, on several occasions, to have Stewart's case dismissed, without success.

Stewart has confronted skepticism on all sides, much of which comes from Matrix fans, who are strangely loyal to the Wachowski Brothers. One on-line forum, entitled Matrix Explained has an entire section devoted to Stewart. Some who have researched her history and writings are open to her story.

Others are suspicious and mocking. 'It doesn't bother me,' said Stewart in a phone interview last week, 'I always knew what was true.' Some fans, are unaware of the case or they question its legitimacy, due to the fact that it has received little to no media coverage. Though the case was not made public until October of 2003, Stewart has her own explanation, as quoted at aghettotymz.com: 'The reason you have not seen any of this in the media is because Warner Brothers parent company is AOL-Time Warner ... this GIANT owns 95 percent of the media ... let me give you a clue as to what they own in the media business ... New York Times papers/magazines, LA Times papers/magazines, People Magazine, CNN news, Extra, Celebrity Justice, Entertainment Tonight, HBO, New Line Cinema, DreamWorks, Newsweek, Village Roadshow and many, many more! They are not going to report on themselves. They have been suppressing my case for years.'

Fans who have taken Stewart's allegations seriously, have found eerie mythological parallels, which seem significant in a case that revolves around the highly metaphorical and symbolic Matrix series. Sophia, the Greek goddess of wisdom has been referenced many times in speculation about Stewart. In one book about the Goddess Sophia, it reads, 'The black goddess is the mistress of web creation spun in her divine matrix.' Although there have been outside implications as to racial injustice (Stewart is African American), she does not feel that this is the case. 'This is all about the Benjamins,' said Stewart. 'It's not about money with me. It's about justice.'

Of course the news article is bullshit initially perpetuated by a chucklefuck college kid and later by a chucklefuck "legitimate newspaper" and Stewart's lawsuit was thrown out of court for failing to appear at a hearing and present hard evidence, but it's effectively become urban legend thanks to the internet. You can buy her original manuscript for Third Eye (spoilers: it's incomplete and your typical savior of mankind with philosophical window dressing) but from what I've seen it's not too good (also it's 80s sci-fi - :nexus:

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Apparently at one point she even believed the article herself, which as you will soon see is a warning call.

In the forward to her book as published, she starts with a lengthy account of well

The FBI features heavily in the forward - note that none of this actually happened - in fact you just might think that Stewart had plagiarized the above news article.
The characters list is loving beautiful:

If it didn't break character limit for usernames I would totally change to Old Gypsy Hag Evil Alien :allears:

Evidently depending on how she's feeling she either owns all rights to The Matrix and Terminator now or still needs to raise money on her gofundme. But in any case she is still going to come out with Matrix 4 no matter the case.
http://matrixterminator.com/
https://twitter.com/Sophia_Stewart/status/730511307997204480
https://twitter.com/Sophia_Stewart/status/696409472877465600

Well that was a nice trip through the wonderful world of schizophrenia :smith:

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After not pursuing legal action for an extended period of time with regards to an IP you lose the rights to claim full ownership of said IP or its subsequent intellectual derivatives. This is why Games Workshop had no leg to stand on when they went after Blizzard because they let it slide for way too long and by extension why Blizzard jumps on private servers as fast as they can because of the risk of decaying their rights to their IP.

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