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Posted: **2004-02-12 08:34am**

http://www.spitboxers.com/matrix/

VANDOR REP SUES WACHOWSKIS, SILVER, WARNER BROS. OVER “MATRIX” - $200 MILLION DOLLARS, INFRINGEMENT AND RACKETEERING CHARGED

Hollywood, CA.

News releases concerning Vandor Music Group’s signing of two new production agencies and labels to their current 400-plus roster have ignited a media firestorm over a dispute of ownership of the original script of the film “Matrix” and it’s subsequent releases.

On April 24, 2003, Vandor affiliate Sophia Stewart, Salt Lake City, UT, filed a federal lawsuit in the United States District Court of California against Hollywood defendants Andy and Larry Wachowski, Joel Silver and Warner Brothers alleging copyright infringement of the movie "Matrix", all subsequent releases, and racketeering.

During an FBI investigation, key pieces of evidence were found establishing Sophia Stewart as writer/author of “Matrix”. Credible witnesses employed at Warner Brothers have come forward claiming company executives and lawyers had full knowledge the work in question did not belong to the Wachowski brothers. Witnesses also stated the original work of Stewart had been seen, and often used, during preparation of the motion picture.

Stewart submitted her original script through so-called ‘recommended’ channels several years prior to the Wachowski brother’s claim to authorship. Revenues from the motion pictures and merchandising are in the hundreds of millions of dollars and growing.

Stewart’s entertainment company “All Eyez on Me, Inc.” and Pop Silk Records have been contracted with Vandor Motion Pictures, Phonorecords and Music Publishing Group (vmgworldwide.com) as a production facility offering world wide promotion, licensing and distribution for the label since January 1st, 2003.

Vandor Motion Pictures, Phonorecords and Music Publishing Group, founded in 1958, has built a 45-Year reputation on independent product, artists, labels, publishers and producers. The company site - vmgworldwide.com - has been on-line for seven years and logged well over 10,000,000 hits and site downloads making it the number one source of accurate recorded music industry information in the world.

Posted: **2004-02-12 08:53am**

So does this make the Wachowskis look better for not actually writing The Matrix, or worse for reading it and still stealing it?

Posted: **2004-02-12 09:04am**

Worse. Not only are they stupid enough to think the script was good enough to make into a movie, but they weren't smart enough to come up with it on their own. That's some really dumb shit.

Posted: **2004-02-12 09:06am**

Why would you even want to claim ownership to the third movie?
Crap ending...

Posted: **2004-02-12 09:15am**

Read the last post of this article on some Matrix fanboy forum.

Hilarious shit I'm sure you'll agree.

There seems to be a lot of ruckus over this infringement if it is all legit (or not as the case may be).

Posted: **2004-02-12 09:26am**

The article seems to state that Ms. Stewart was the authour of the first Matrix movie and says nothing about her involvement in writing either of the two sequels. However, even if she had not so much as scribbled a single note on a napkin for either sequel, they both are material based upon her own original work, using her characters and settings. If the charges bear out, the Wachowskis, in addition to being guilty for the piss-poor stupidity of the third film, are directly guilty of theft of intellectual property, and the studio for aiding and abetting this crime as well as operating the active conspiracy to deprive Sophia Stewart of her due creative credits and revenues. That's acting-in-concert in a major criminal fraud and can indeed be defined as racketeering.

Posted: **2004-02-12 09:48am**

Suddenly the trilogy makes sense

Someone else wrote the first one, and it was good.

Then the 'brothers' got ahold if it, and then it sucks.

There's the proof right there

Posted: **2004-02-12 09:54am**

I hope they got sucked dry and the real owner will use the money to rewrite the sequels.

Posted: **2004-02-12 09:54am**

If true, this will be like a magnitude 10 earthquake in the middle of Hollywood

To think that one of the most interesting and influential franchises of the past 7 years was theft~

Posted: **2004-02-12 10:11am**

Is anyone really surprised?

Posted: **2004-02-12 10:31am**

Stofsk wrote:Is anyone really surprised?

Slightly.

Posted: **2004-02-12 10:33am**

Stofsk wrote:Is anyone really surprised?

Uh ... yeah, actually.

Posted: **2004-02-12 10:38am**

Actually, this makes perfect sense. It explains why the script in the first film was the only serviceable one in the series, with the other two being complete and utter shite. THe Wachowskis just can't write, maybe.

Posted: **2004-02-12 10:41am**

Stofsk wrote:Is anyone really surprised?

Yes, I am actually. But it would explain how it went from a first film that was a good, borderline great action movie into a pair of bad sequels.

Posted: **2004-02-12 10:42am**

Surprised? Yes. Confused? No, since this does indeed explain the original's greatness compared to the crap of the sequels.

Posted: **2004-02-12 10:42am**

As far as I remember, Matrix was launched in 1999. Why waiting so long before filling the lawsuit. To wait for more money to come first?

Posted: **2004-02-12 10:46am**

Comosicus wrote:As far as I remember, Matrix was launched in 1999. Why waiting so long before filling the lawsuit. To wait for more money to come first?

You always seem to get some guy calling foul of a big bucks making idea, it's a good plan if you're weasley.

Posted: **2004-02-12 10:51am**

Admiral Valdemar wrote:
Comosicus wrote:As far as I remember, Matrix was launched in 1999. Why waiting so long before filling the lawsuit. To wait for more money to come first?
You always seem to get some guy calling foul of a big bucks making idea, it's a good plan if you're weasley.

Sorry, but I can't understand what you mean. I'm not a native English speaker and sometimes I find myself lost .

Posted: **2004-02-12 10:51am**

In light of the MPAA's abuse of copyright laws and theft of intellectual property, I feel it's necessary to take action against them and download as much illegally copied movies from KaZaA.

And they have the bollocks to say KaZaA users are wrong for IP theft. Pheh!

Posted: **2004-02-12 10:55am**

Comosicus wrote:
Admiral Valdemar wrote:
Comosicus wrote:As far as I remember, Matrix was launched in 1999. Why waiting so long before filling the lawsuit. To wait for more money to come first?
You always seem to get some guy calling foul of a big bucks making idea, it's a good plan if you're weasley.

Sorry, but I can't understand what you mean. I'm not a native English speaker and sometimes I find myself lost .

If there's an idea making a lot of money at the moment and becoming very popular, sooner or later someone will claim they thought it up first. I believe this Sofia also claimed to have done The Terminator before James Cameron and Gale Anne Hurd.

Posted: **2004-02-12 10:57am**

Admiral Valdemar wrote:If there's an idea making a lot of money at the moment and becoming very popular, sooner or later someone will claim they thought it up first. I believe this Sofia also claimed to have done The Terminator before James Cameron and Gale Anne Hurd.

No, that was Harlan Ellison, and he did win that suit. And with good reason as well.

Posted: **2004-02-12 11:24am**

Stolen ideas.
Had they only stolen the idea, or the whole story of Matrix? This is important, because I remember a case that was nearly similar to this one. Erich von Dänicken had accused the makers of the movie "Stargate", that they had stolen his idea. Bis he was not successful.

Posted: **2004-02-12 11:33am**

I thought they settled out of court in that case.

Posted: **2004-02-12 11:41am**

I'm surprised, but since my opinion of the Wachowski brothers can get little lower I don't especially care. If the allegations are true, I hope they lose everything they've got and more. If they're not true, I hope this woman loses everything she owns.

Posted: **2004-02-12 11:43am**

I think in the case of Harlan Ellison and the Terminator that he's actually credited on the film now.

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The Wachowski brothers did not write the Matrix !!

The Wachowski brothers did not write the Matrix !!