NEWS: Makers of "Matrix" and "Terminator" sued for copyright infringment, and lost!

CULTURE: Makers of "Matrix" and "Terminator" sued for copyright infringment, and lost!

It seems the Wachowski bros couldnt come up for the crap storyline of matrix by themselves!



"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 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."



full story here:



http://www.slccglobelink.com/main.c...yid/785067.html

haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahahahahahahahaha


awesome, good for her

Wow. Weird. Not that hard to imagine though. If they really did base it on her stuff, they should have included her in on it and let her make some money off of it and give some creative input.
I never even bothered to watch the last one.

why not? it was good.

People that there was something original about the Matrix?

The link is dead.

Huh?

"People, that there was something original about the Matrix, come on!"

Better?

The only thing good about the second one was Monica Belluci. And I could see people getting scared away from the last film even though it was better that the second.
Also, if those fuckers hosed that woman out of her ideas, I say let them get ass raped in prison a thousand times. Regardless of how you feel about the films, stealing someone's ideas and making a shit-ton of money off them is ....Gaaaaaaaaaa

[Edited on Dec 05, 2004 by Derivation]

nope. I've never seen such a massive middle finger flipped to the bruckheimer/disney school of storytelling. I loved it.

edit: though I admit that they're seriously diminished in the light of this lawsuit. I'd rather be shot dead than plagarized, personally.

[Edited on Dec 05, 2004 by Turin]

There is justice in the world! Even though i liked the movies that rocks.

Dead links, claims that Revolutions was good.

Spooky thread.

Let's find the proof. Troof. Spoof.

I need to have some ideas, and leave them in a box in the middle of Hollywood.

Decades later, PROFIT!

here's the real story link:
http://www.slccglobelink.com/news/2004/10/28/Entertainment/mother.Of.The.Matrix.Victorious-785067.shtml

The second and third matrix movies were quite honestly garbage.

well, i hope "the third eye" contained better dialogue than "the matrix", because UGH.

It'd almost have to.

Fanks. Actually, "People thought there was something original about the Matrix?"


It's late.


That's no excuse, but it is.

Good for her. I like all three movies althoguh the second was not as good as the other two. I dont really care who wrote it, but she should get fair compensation.

i just read an excerpt.

it may even be worse.

normally I think people who sue are assholes just looking for a buck. but the legitimate ones that win rock.

that is so lame that they would try and blatently rip off someone's ideas like that. i mean... its not like they werent making enough money off of it... had they just shared the credit at first there would have been plenty of money and credit to go around

thats just sick. what assholes.

well, everyone's talking about matrix but no one is saying shit about the terminator movies...

so yeah, what's THAT all about?

thanks.

and i couldn't go to the second page in the link. bah.

I agree, but I think there was about 15 minutes of action in the second one which saved it from being complete crap. The Merovingian and highway sequence was at least entertaining.