Matrix....kick in the butt

[Pearls4Life]

Who is Sophia Stewart I'll tell you....
She is a the black woman claiming to have written the MATRIX....Thats right a sistah wrote that joint! On top of that she is suing Warner Brothers for close to
$2.5 billion .....dang! can somebody say...cha-ching
It is way time sistahas get paid for white folks sealing our S%*T! Anyhooo she had shopped her book around to no avail and then went to the movies one day and saw her words in action...Warner Brothers tried to settle ...but she had a good attorney that told her ("hell to the naw...let's make an example outta their a##$@") a sistah is bout to get paid....I'll keep you posted OH yeah...she did copyright it ....ohhhh they messed up now! lol

[ARTIC-U-LATE]

I heard this too, she said she wrote terminator too, if I am not mistaken. If proven beyond a shadow of a doubt, she will get BROKE OFF! Keep me posted.

[moe.ron]

Article on the Story

[starang21]

is she cute?

[MeezDiscreet]

you decide...



also, check this out and go down the page to her gallery. it has copies of her copyright, letters and all that...

[starang21]

Originally posted by MeezDiscreet
you decide...



also, check this out and go down the page to her gallery. it has copies of her copyright, letters and all that...

and how much cheese is she going to get????

hmmm......

[TonyB06]

She's cute, even if it looks like the picture was snapped in 1972. But cute and paid is always a winning combination.

[Gina1201]

Originally posted by TonyB06
She's cute, even if it looks like the picture was snapped in 1972. But cute and paid is always a winning combination.

Ooh, Tony you WRONG for that. But you are telling the truth.

[starang21]

Originally posted by TonyB06
She's cute, even if it looks like the picture was snapped in 1972. But cute and paid is always a winning combination.

aight, as long as i'm not the only shallow one on this peice.

[ladygreek]

Thanks for the article moe.ron. I don't know. She and her assertions always sounded a little looney to me.

[Pearls4Life]

Well now I don't know is she is cute or not but hey its her story and her claim....all I know is she is getting her 15 minutes of fame however true or false....I know we have seen people make far more worse claims and far more true claims....

Wish I had something other thant my BILLS to claim... Can I get a witness?....lol

[nachural]

she's not getting 15 mins of anything

Warner Bros own 95% of the media they're not letting this get any attention. It's been in a few black magazines but that's the most it will get apart from forums on the internet. It's pretty sad

[ladygreek]

Originally posted by nachural
she's not getting 15 mins of anything

This IS her 15 minutes of fame.

[Dvyne Evolushun]

Originally posted by moe.ron
Article on the Story

It was also on hot ghetto mess.com under not ghetto mess that she won..... so I am assuming that she didn't??

originally posted by Dyvne Evolushun
(From hotghettomess.com under the Not Ghetto Mess section)

Black Author Wins The Matrix Copyright Infringement Case

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!!!

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-TimeWarner... 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..."


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!"