Sophia Stewart, black woman from New York, claims that the stories from The Matrix and Terminator were both copied from a single scifi epic she published back in the early 80's entitled "The Third Eye". Her lawsuit has largely been ignored by the press, much of which is owned by the same conglomorates as the movie franchises.

I'm curious enough to want to read her stuff and see how it compares. I generally tend to be somewhat skeptical of claims like this, just because it's so easy for different people to independently come up with similar ideas and then shout "copycat!" But if it's as the article says, then there are an awful lot of uncanny resemblences. Also, check out this amusing commentary about the whole matter, written from a meta-gnostic perspective.