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Sophia Stewart, The Real Creator of ‘The Matrix,’ Wins Billion Dollar Copyright Case
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AFRICANGLOBE – This little known story has met a
just conclusion, as Sophia Stewart, African American author of The
Matrix will finally receive her just due from the copyright infringement
of her original work!!!
A six-year dispute has ended 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 presiding.
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.’
The Matrix is arguably the most successful science sci-fi movie
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.
Stewart is currently having discussions with CBS about a possible
exclusive story and has several media engagements in the near future to
nationally publicize her victory.
June 13th 2004. Sophia Stewart’s press release read: ‘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!
