Sophia Stewart an
African American who claimed to be the author of The Matrix will finally
receive
Sophia Stewart an
African American who claimed to be the author of The Matrix will finally
receive her just due from the copyright infringement of her original work, as
the copyright case is finally settled in court.
A six-year dispute has
ended which involved Sophia Stewart, the Wachowski Brothers, Joel Silver and
Warner Brothers. Sophia Stewart’s allegations, involving copyright infringement
and racketeering, were well received and completely acknowledged by the Central
District of California, where the Judge Margaret Morrow was presiding.
Sophie Stewart had
filed her copyright infringement case 10 years ago, in 1999, after viewing the
acclaimed movie 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 advertisement placed by the Wachowski Brothers, requesting new
sci-fi works, which could be later made into a movie.
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”.
Sophia Stewart’s
released a press statement which said: ‘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!’

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