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

Submitted by Motionboy

Edited by Sean

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

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Graven

Graven

Reading, MN
March 2003

DEC 06, 2004 11:55 AM

I don't know, I loved the entire trilogy. In fact, I could care less how fucking corrupt the Brothers were. I'm just suddenly interested in this missing 30 minutes.

Where's my Special Bootleg Edition The Matrix?!

PointBlank

PointBlank

New York, NY
November 2004

DEC 06, 2004 11:57 AM

eyeofcolossus said:

Keenan said:
Wow. Can't believe so many people hate the Matrix sequels. Its one of the best trilogies of our time. Even better than the LOTR trilogy. If anything should be shat upon, its Terminator 3 puke



Please tell me you're kidding.

LOTR is the most important literary work of the 20th century.

Matrix is....poorly thought out and written out hack work.


LOTR may be better than the Matrix...but the most important literary work of the 20th Century??

Not even Tolkien would agree with that bullshit.

Sexdwarf

Sexdwarf

Hermosa Beach, CA
February 2003

DEC 06, 2004 12:01 PM

D'oh

SexyBeast

SexyBeast

Covington, LA
July 2004

DEC 06, 2004 01:00 PM

Hopefully the woman gets what she deserves.
___________________

Responding to what various other people have said:

Second Matrix sucked, to many long drawn out action scenes. The third one was much better then the second, but I don't think it was nearly as good as the first.

LOTR was a much better trilogy then The Matrix trilogy. I don't think LOTR was the most important literary work of the 20th century. I could be wrong I've never read it.

So yeah... the other thoughts I had while reading, I've forgotten.

EvanX

EvanX

Grand Rapids, MI
June 2003

DEC 06, 2004 01:13 PM

D'oh!

Lit_the_Filter

Lit_the_Filter

Tacoma, WA
August 2004

DEC 06, 2004 02:40 PM

eyeofcolossus said:
LOTR is the most important literary work of the 20th century.



Please. It's Mein Kampf with pointy ears.

almostfamous

almostfamous

NEWSWIRE

United Kingdom

DEC 06, 2004 02:40 PM

anyone found another source yet?

all i can find is the a couple of forums talking about it, and the only story they're citing is this one.

in fact i can't find a single reference to the lawsuit even existing outside those forums surreal

hermetica

hermetica

Cook Islands
January 2004

DEC 06, 2004 03:23 PM

Lit_the_Filter said:

eyeofcolossus said:
LOTR is the most important literary work of the 20th century.



Please. It's Mein Kampf with pointy ears.



Now thats a truly pathetic comparison. I dont know if LOTR is the most important work of the 20th century, but it certainly is important- especially in you read the whole body of work (the Silmarillion, Lost Tales etc) and you understand it from a mythological and linguistic level. Tolkien created not just an entertaining tale turned into a movie series, but rather, a whole civilization, with deities, a creation myth, languages, heroes, species, complex and fascinating racial histories etc etc.

Spare me your lame media-fed comments. Id like to see you achieve the same literary feat as he did.

Lit_the_Filter

Lit_the_Filter

Tacoma, WA
August 2004

DEC 06, 2004 04:15 PM

I'll grant that the Mein Kampf comparison might have been a little excessive, since Tolkien wasn't advocating a policy with his books. And yeah, I'll give Tolkien credit for an impressive amount of research, but I'm not going to pretend that rewriting Scandanavian mythology into a race war is an impressive literary feat.

desidia

desidia

Reunion
September 2002

DEC 06, 2004 04:24 PM

sweet

Lain

Lain

Astoria, NY
April 2004

DEC 06, 2004 04:27 PM



Now thats a truly pathetic comparison. I dont know if LOTR is the most important work of the 20th century, but it certainly is important- especially in you read the whole body of work (the Silmarillion, Lost Tales etc) and you understand it from a mythological and linguistic level. Tolkien created not just an entertaining tale turned into a movie series, but rather, a whole civilization, with deities, a creation myth, languages, heroes, species, complex and fascinating racial histories etc etc.



and still completely and 110% Fantasy.

Good though

Mr_Ruckus

Mr_Ruckus

Brooklyn, NY
January 2004

DEC 06, 2004 04:40 PM

No comment!

Neslo

Neslo

Mililani, HI
August 2004

DEC 06, 2004 04:49 PM

I'm inclined to think this story's a load of shit. While it is true that AOL-Time Warner owns a whole buttload of news organizations, they don't own them all. Somebody SOMEWHERE would have picked up on this by now if it were true, and it would be reported elsewhere. This isn't exactly a small story. But no, no other stories can be found about it anywhere.

thelastbeliever

thelastbeliever

United Kingdom
January 2004

DEC 06, 2004 05:03 PM

I really don't understand why everyone hates the 2nd and 3rd Matrix films. I thought they were honestly okay.

hermetica

hermetica

Cook Islands
January 2004

DEC 07, 2004 08:15 AM

Lit_the_Filter said:
I'll grant that the Mein Kampf comparison might have been a little excessive, since Tolkien wasn't advocating a policy with his books. And yeah, I'll give Tolkien credit for an impressive amount of research, but I'm not going to pretend that rewriting Scandanavian mythology into a race war is an impressive literary feat.



Hmm.. and tell me that every mythological battle in every culture in every society on this planet isnt a race war of some sort. 'Chosen people vs. Heathens' , Gods vs Titans, etc etc. Besides, he didnt just draw on only Scandinavian sources. There are all sorts of different mythologies woven into his books. Besides which, if you study world religions , mythology and ancient civilisations enough, you notice that they all borrow from each other (or to be more exact, all the cultures that had any sort of contact with each other) .
And again I say.. unless you can achieve the same kind of literary feat as Tolkien, I suggest you refrain from criticism.

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