Sophia Stewart, African American author of The Matrix will finally receive her just due from the copyright infringement of her original piece!!! Back on October 4th 2004 Sophia Stewarts dispute involving, the Wachowski Brothers, Joel Silver and Warner Brothers was concluded. Stewart's allegations, involving copyright infringement and racketeering, were received and acknowledged by the Central District of California.
Stewart 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... 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.
Stewart's future plans involve a record label, entitled Popsilk Records, and a motion picture production company, All Eyez On Me, in reference to God. I wrote The Third Eye to wake people up, to remind them why God put them here. There's more to life than money, said Stewart.
My whole to the world is about God and good and about choice, about spirituality over 'technocracy'. If Stewart represents spirituality, then she truly has prevailed over the technocracy represented in both the Terminator and the Matrix, and now, ironically, by their supposed creators.
To see a copy of Sophia's press release click on the link
http://www.daghettotymz.com/matrix/PR10-2K4.pdf
http://www.websitetoolbox.com/tool/p...amp;trail=25#1
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I remember reading about this a good while back. People used to say how she was just a nobody seeking 15 minutes of fame. I'm glad she's finallygetting the due respect and compensation that's been owed to her all these years.
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