Via Certified Mail

February 17, 2000

Mr. Georges Michelson-Dupont, Trustee

Urantia Foundation

533 Diversey Parkway

Chicago, IL 60614

Dear Georges,

Thank you for your letter of January 21, 2000, concerning a meeting between The Fellowship and Urantia Foundation. As in past meetings, we have assumed that this meeting would be between the five Trustees of the Foundation and an equal number of members of The Fellowship's Executive Committee. Since only the five Trustees, acting as a body, can speak authoritatively for Urantia Foundation, we believe it is essential that all five Trustees of Urantia Foundation attend this meeting.

You suggest we meet in Paris at the end of February. Although we would need more time to prepare for a meeting in Paris, we are willing to travel in order to discuss these issues with all five Trustees. We would need 45-60 days to secure travel documents and reasonable airfares, as well as a guarantee of two or three days with all five Trustees to ensure a productive meeting. As an alternative to having nine people travel to Paris, we could arrange to meet in Chicago following one of your scheduled events this spring, or at some other time, perhaps in connection with one of your trips to New York. I await your call to discuss venue, date, and an agenda for the proposed meeting.

The Fellowship and Urantia Foundation entered into a mutually beneficial contract on February 9, 1999, which licensed The Fellowship to display The Urantia Book and its translations on its web site. Since that time we have relied on the good faith of Urantia Foundation and made a substantial investment to enable the electronic display of these texts on our web site. Thousands of visitors to The Fellowship web site have become accustomed to using these resources. Although we are displaying the inviolate text per our agreement, we have also made a number of technical adjustments in order to provide search capabilities for these texts. The features we have added are valuable to the readers who use our web site, and do not violate our agreement.

You have stated that Urantia Foundation has recently changed its web site license policy, and that the license now specifically excludes translations. Apart from your letter, we have no official confirmation from Urantia Foundation of such changes. We do note that the web site license policy statement has been removed from the Foundation's web site and replaced by a statement that the policies are under review; but there is no indication of a new policy.

We have entered into an agreement, which is binding on both organizations, even if Urantia Foundation chooses to treat new web sites differently. The Fellowship has invested substantial effort and resources based on the web site license policy it accepted from Urantia Foundation. It is not reasonable to attempt to project current changes in your licensing policies onto our existing contract. We have conformed fully and in good faith to the requirements of our license, which we believe remains in effect as originally established.

If you disagree with our views in this matter, that is something we can discuss when we meet. Again, Georges, since only the Trustees are empowered to speak authoritatively for Urantia Foundation we believe that all five Trustees must be present at the meeting to facilitate resolution of our disagreements.

I look forward to hearing from you at your earliest convenience.

Sincerely,

 

Janet Farrington Graham

President

JFG/jh

cc: Trustees, Urantia Foundation

Members, Executive Committee