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Raving lunatic or legitimate beef
by Jolex Del Pilar

Sunday, January 18 2004

Meet the "real" creator of the GTA series, or is he? You decide.

Hello,

My name is Dawn Gilbert Phone 330-306-xxxx. Sony has been stealing my video game ideas since at least 2001. I have copy of the letter sent to Sony Co. of America with the ideas they did use in G.T.A. Vice city, and the original separate pages of notes those ideas came from. All signed and dated by me, the author which makes them legally copyrighted.

The letter sent to SONY was returned to me BY sony, stamped received when and by whom in the company, with standard reply letter from Sony, on company letterhead and envelope.

This response letter from sony said that I would not be paid for these ideas. Even if they used them and even though I had stated in writing that if my ideas were used I wanted 10% of gross profit from sale of any product using my ideas MIN.! Again this letter is handwritten dated and signed by me as well, and with that line in it, that makes it legal a contract. Only verbal one as it was not signed by both participating parties, but a legal contract none the less! (This was told to me by several attorneys and is why I always did add a clause like that to any company I choose submit ideas to for sale, or contract negotiations.

These ideas were specifically for G.T.A. and other action and driving genre style games. I have a Fed-ex letter from Sony CO. of America copyright attorney Riley Russell (650-655-8040); blaming "Rockstar" games for the theft which was not who the letters were sent to. by or received from, and if they were given to Rockstar games for use it was only by SONY whom they were mailed to with receipts in the first place.

Since I contacted the attorney, Sony Co. o America has stopped most commercial advertizements on their video games. (from beginning of summer; may or june 2003-beginning of December 2003!) They are beginning to run these commercials again this month, only now they are making the game software companies advertise sale of the games take all the risk of lawsuit all on their own. They have also stopped commercials for and delayed release of MOVIES because of his impending lawsuit I have threatened.

Titles such as house of the dead, the order, the medallion, the brotherhood (my book title itself!) the underground, and many more. They were told most scripts from RANDOM house bought by them for he production of thee films were stolen from me by Random house inc of new york, along with the business plan I sent them and that both were/are copyrighted legally.

They have changed scheduled programming on their tv stations, and for a while did not even advertize to play along with game shows on tv, online because those were my ideas too.

Inventions from the book such as stated in my business plan "the suit", they did not even bother changing it from a long tailed "TUXEDO" when they made the movie with Jackie Chan!

They did not even change it a third by stating that most functions are ONLY accessible with the use (directory of uses) of the WATCH as well! Merchandizing ideas for these products were used to sell other authors products and series, such as Harry Potter!

My car innovations and weapons other inventions used in James Bond (007) films and "Men in Black." For "Blade (1-2!)" and "Queen of the Dammed" Random House Editors only changed my characters into black people, and they had chopped the storyline up even further to create video games which they sell out to every software company available!

I have mailing receipts and letters to prove they received and used all of my material word for word. The magazine that was supposed to publish my story; Game Informer; is now paid to do a video game review show based on my design and my ideas, which were sent to Sony of America Attorney Riley Russell in a settlement negotiations contract proposal. SONY attorney was also sent a copy of business plan with copyright seal page included, as well as copyright seal page of the book stolen by random house, and copies of all letters I had sent to and received from Sony for review as evidence, as requested by the attorney!

None of the games in question are being taken off the market in fact they are now about to debut G.T.A. SERIES in JAPAN (Which makes this an international case with international press and profit potential!) this year according to MY new video game review NEWS section.

All evidence has been digitally scanned for mailing purposes and is available upon request on cd-rom, 3 1/2 floppy or zip disks. I have sent copies of all evidence concerning these issues to the FBI and the FCC enforcement agency division for them to review and take the necessary steps to prosecute Sony in court for ee offenses and illegal fraudulent activities. I am now making many contacts with the media and press publish this scandal.

If your company is insuring either Sony corporation or random house corporation, your company might be the ones having to pay out all of the damages awarded to me in these court proceedings so I just thought you should know for the record. Please feel free to contact me at any time if you have any questions. Thank you for your time and consideration in this matter.

Regards,
Dawn Gilbert
330-306-xxxx

P.S.: I also sent resume letters and files of my ideas to George Lucas: Lucas films LTD,: Human resources division making a story a circle that revolved right back to the beginning that was my idea! I sent to the job resources: a secretary, and got a reply from their attorney division. How many people had seen and copied my information before it got there, or was sent back to me by the company attorney?