What's with the near 100% media (including Internet) blackout on this African woman's claim on writing the matrix and Terminator stories??

Even Amazon have run out of her original book: The Third Eye.

For such huge films and the woman is taking them to court, why zero publicity? Is it possible to control information to such an extent?

Anybody got a view on this?

It was discussed on websites devoted to The Matrix Trilogy for years.

But those boards have died down in the last couple of years.

There was some incident where a judge ruled there was enough evidence for the case to go forward. That had to be more than two years ago.

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That's exactly what I mean Umbrachist; evidence that she has some case and not a word from mainstream media whatsoever!

Where can you go to get information on such a sensational claim to check it's credibilty? I mean, even wikipedia don't have an entry for her - now that strange. A site that has an entry for the most far fetched reaches of our imagination, doesn't have a page on someone who said she wrote the Matrix, and took it to court!!

I tried for a little while to find what she wrote originally but I never had any luck.

Although I almost hate to say it the thing to do would have been to bring in someone like Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Farakhan or Oprah Winfrey in on this. Considering that it involve a book and movie Oprah might be best. If anything one would think that media people on Oprah's staff would have brought it to her attention.

But there are A LOT of ideas that have been floating around in sci-fi a long time. I have read a lot of sci-fi and there is tons more I haven't read. Where did the ideas for AVATAR come from?

Is James Cameron’s Avatar Actually an Uncredited Rewrite of a 1957 Poul Anderson Story? | /Film

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It is strange, the story was "popular" for a while as most people into films figured out that the Matrix was heavily dubbed from other sources, Ghost in a shell, Akira, Blade and other films to the point where other directors commented, albeit in its favour, saying that they noticed the similarities but at least they made it something diffrent.

Some stories have their roots in others that no one can really claim, there's a folklore tale I remember reading, of the zulus that can be compared to the underlying story of the matrix and terminator. A child being born to a woman is rejected by the people, she runs away with it, it in turn grows murders its mother and sets about enslaving mankind by appeasing to the peoples greed and want of luxury thus depriving them of their means to self defence he also has a horde of killer flies at his beck and call... in the story I read the flies were mechanic.. Diffrent story same premise and that myth predates most, find similar tales elsewhere.

Agree about the case though... she won and gave her side of things...

Black Nerds Network: Sophia Stewart did write the Matrix...and Terminator!

Book has to be a best seller by now, know I'm looking for a copy.

YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.

Not sure why our media dosent cover it, we're not bound to the same corruptions.

Its a very big story.

The book, The Third Eye (The Mother of the Matrix, Volume 1):Amazon:Books

Wasn't bits from the book they stole but stuff she had sent in to the studio as she explains in the youtube link... fools on amazon on a head trip.

Ankhor, how can the story she won be verified? I've heard people say fake stories are out there about her winning. If she did win, how much would she end up being paid?? The whole thing is very weird..............

Agree...

Sophia Stewart | Facebook

Its aggrovating and to be honest I doubt no one would have picked it up if it were true, the case would be the biggest in hollywoods history, unsure whether shes using it to sell her book or not.. if it was true her publishing company would have a snazzy website amd Welcome to Matrix Third Eye TV!!! is not a snazzy website... generally think a lot would be cleared up if she had won and she wouldn't advertise it the way it is now, dodgy pictures on Amazon declaring herself as ''the mother of the matrix''... looking for info on the law suit and american companies house.... feeling disinclinded...

None of the, ''All eyes on me, inc'' addresses come up as viable addresses on google maps, as in none of the properties seem to be publishing houses, one P.O box in Las Vegas on a site with the lawsuit dated febuary 2009 couldn't be valid if she had won years earlier... urban tall tale business... she'd be flexing if she'd won, her facebook page would be jammin' also.

Think the case was dismissed and hasn't been followed up since so shes milking it for all its worth to sell her book. Had me going for a bit, the story is too ambiguious for anyone to stake a claim to really.

Ag Bu Oji is correct. Through a technical default (i.e. Ms. Stewart, missed an important court date) the case was dropped back in 2005.

“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 and has tentacles that reach into some of the largest Black Media outlets (e.g. Blackplanet.com)

The fallout of DGT and the Mother of the Matrix by M'Bwebe Ishangi
(Prior to the fallout this site provided a blow by blow account of the plight of Sophia Stewart.)
|: The Fallout of DGT and the Mother of the Matrix, Sophia Stewart :|

YT has always been in the busness of copying - plagarizing - and pillaging from "people of colour" what he is unable to create.

Another reference:
PLAYAHATA.COM - Interviews Sophia Stewart January 9th, 2005

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Peace Fine1952,

AOL-Time Warner sure ain't playing - stopping even a wikpedia page on stewart - that's media control!

That link you provided had a comment that she was still pursuing the case, via lawyers after "sellin her out". I still can't find anything more about her fight though.

Hotep!

Bismillaah. Peace, everyone. I read a story a few weeks ago that the case had been settled in Stewart's favor. I'll try to find it again, and post it here.


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Sophia Stewart wins the Matrix copyright infringement case

Sophia Stewart wins the Matrix copyright infringement case
November 11th, 2009 - 8:52 pm ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt Tell a Friend -

Sophia Stewart New York, Nov 11 (THAINDIAN NEWS) Sophia Stewart an African American who claimed to be the author of The Matrix will finally receive her just due from the copyright infringement of her original work, as the copyright case is finally settled in court.

A six-year dispute has ended which involved Sophia Stewart, the Wachowski Brothers, Joel Silver and Warner Brothers. Sophia Stewart’s allegations, involving copyright infringement and racketeering, were well received and completely acknowledged by the Central District of California, where the Judge Margaret Morrow was presiding.

Sophie Stewart had filed her copyright infringement case 10 years ago, in 1999, after viewing the acclaimed movie 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 advertisement placed by the Wachowski Brothers, requesting new sci-fi works, which could be later made into a movie.

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”.

Sophia Stewart’s released a press statement which said: ‘The Matrix & Terminator movie franchises have made world history and have ultimately changed the way people view movies and how Hollywood does business, yet the real truth about the creator and creation of these films continue to elude the masses because the hidden secret of the matter is that these films were created and written by a Black woman…a Black woman named Sophia Stewart. But Hollywood does not want you to know this fact simply because it would change history. Also it would encourage our Black children to realize a dream and that is…nothing is impossible for them to achieve!’

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Once again.....how do we verifiy the story??

Bismillaah. Peace, everyone. Breadfruit, I wish I knew. Here are a few of the links that I've searched. i didn't find any new information:

The Billion-Dollar Myth - Los Angeles Times

Sophia Stewart Wins The Matrix Copyright Violation Case | Breaking News Portal, Your Online News Channel for All Latest News
Sophia Stewart Wins The Matrix Copyright Violation Case

Black Author wins The Matrix Copyright Infringement Case Brand Newz


Sophia Stewart Wins ~ Google search



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Sophia Stewart - Mother of the Matrix interviewed live by Beverley on the TRUTH POWER show

Warner brothers, who own 95% of the air waves and printed word never intended that these little known facts about Ms. Stewart's outcome of the trial reach the masses.

I am happy she won and applaud her continued efforts to re-claim what was rightfully hers in the first place...!

Thx, for posting this article.

OneLove,
Fine1952

Hey is this story really true I still cannot help but beleive it's an urban myth surely it would be more widely reported by now

May 2010 interview with Sophia Stewart in which she talks about her case and it's cover-up. She also speaks about copyright law and the importance of source material (original idea or plan) for a major film production. Really interesting stuff....

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/victim-...embed=download

She has definitely being fighting to prove her work has been stolen by Warner Brothers and the media has effectively made public investigation of this case very hard indeed.

Isn't it ironic then, that the Matrix story revolves around people being conscious or not conscious of reality and a battle to let truth (reality) be known??

Or is there something more than irony at work here?

If this story so true then why does'nt the black media come out with this story, why does'nt she do a podcast.

Deanda, please do your research before making blanket statements, just because she hasn't appeared on the 'approved' black media outlets doesn't mean no-one has interviewed her. Check out the links below . The jury is still out on whether her story is indeed true but there has def been people who have exposed this story.




Sophia Stewart- The Mother Of The Matrix- SoulLess- Man Wanted To Live ForeverThe Saga Continues 11/29/2009 - Infinite Waters | Internet Radio | Blog Talk Radio



There are many more interviews/articles about this but this should give you an idea

Ok I get what your saying but I have heard this story that a ‘black woman wrote the Matrix’, for some years now without much proof recently I heard she won a lawsuit well, if she won the lawsuit for copyright infringement, then I am very sure that would be big news. When you ‘Google’ Sophia Stewart image is one grainy old picture,of a black woman smiling is it her who knows I would really like to see this story go Big, she should release the original book/script she wrote The Third Eye, and also use the experience of what happened to her, to help young budding writers to date and copyright their work, to prevent their ideas being stolen. I do believe that sometimes people can have the same concepts and ideas at the same time, which could have happened here, that the thing how do you copyright/patent an idea, I remember a few years back a someone called Harlan Ellison sued David Cameron for stealing the idea for Terminator from a an episode of The Outer Limits.


JK Rowling was sued by a family claiming she stole the story from Willy the Wizard books, Simon Cowell’s X Factor was sued for copying the Pop Idol Format, remember all the single girl book that came out after the Bridget Jones Diary Book got released, remember Beyonce was going around saying she wrote the song Irreplaceble and Ne-Yo had to step in and say she did’nt, more recently within Rap game Lil Kim is telling people Nicki Minaj copied her style.


There is philosophy which talks about the matrix way before Sophia Stewart or the movie Matrix, and come on how many people have’nt thought about the idea of computers/artificial intelligence taking over the world or becoming too intelligent.


I am very aware of time travel, robots that kill people and alternate realities so if I wrote a book and incorporate those ideas have I stolen a concept?



If this true about what happened to Sophia Stewart then I am sorry but why on earth would you send a manuscript to a studio and not get your intellectual property protected it’s not like she could not do that in 1981,especially if you are a black writer, goose, cook anyone?

If someone stole my book and put their name on it I would be yelling from the rooftops putting my name and put my face out their, doing podcasts.

Well whatever the outcome of this whole saga is the Wachowski Brothers and Cameron done made their millions, there will always controversy over who hatched the idea.