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[Enter The Matrix] Niobe: "Is the exit clean?" Sparks: "As vestal as my bunghole."
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66Scorpio
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"Ideas" cannot be stolen
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Just a little heads up on copyright law: you can "steal" any idea that you want from anyone at anytime and it is not illegal unless you have some contractual agreement to the contrary. Copyright only protects the expression of the idea, not the idea itself. (Patents, dealing with inventions, DO protect the ideas themselves, but that is a different ball of wax.)
In any event, all religious writings (with the exception of those from the Church of Scientology, which should tell you something) are in the public domain, so they could be copied word for word without legal repercussions. And the ideas are fair game for any philosopher/screenwriter to use in any story they would like to tell.
It is plausible that the Dubya Brothers read Third Eye and incorporated some or even many of the ideas into the Matrix, but beyond Sophia Stewart's bland assertions that her characters, plot, story and theme are directly translated into the Matrix (ie, they recreated her expression of the ideas, and not merely the ideas themselves) there is no eveidence that I have seen that implicates the makers of either the Matrix or the Terminator in any sort of copyright infringement.
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