Old, but interesting, story of media suppression. Is it true?

Interesting story, if true, about media suppression of the news.

"Mother of the Matrix" Victorious
By Martha Carter
Published: Thursday, October 28, 2004

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.

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The author of the article alleges that this story has been suppressed by Warner Bros., which owns a huge share of the media. This is new to me, and I did not find a previous post on it when I searched DU. Has anyone heard anything about it?

At least among sci-fi geeks. =)

I worked for a MAJOR Movie producer, back in the early 1990's, and we NEVER excepted ANY script that showed up at the office, for just this reason.

We had a standing order to refuse and NOT sign for any FEDEX or UPS package that looked even remotely like a package that could contain a scrip.:smoke: