Correspondence related to Urantia Foundation
complaints
1999-2000
September 8, 1998 -- Foundation Announces New Copyright, Internet and Trademark Usage Policies -- Contains a full copy of their "new" policy.
August 3, 1999 -- Letter from Jacques Dupont -- claims moral right in French translation of The Uranita Book
August 20, 1999 -- Foundation statement on unauthorized translations -- This was posted to their email lists; it contains Tonia's call for a letter writing campaign against the Fellowship regarding Michael Foundation's publication of Part IV.
October 28, 1999 -- Letter from Janet to Trustees -- Response to Trustees letter of October 12
December 15, 1999 -- Letter from Trustees -- They agree to have a meeting to discuss issues.
December 23, 1999 -- Proposed letter to Trustees -- from Dan Massey for the Fellowship.
January 10, 2000 -- Response to Richard Keeler -- Letter from Janet requesting clarification and a meeting date
January 26, 2000 -- Registered letter from Georges Dupont -- regarding website infringements
February 17, 2000 -- Letter from Georges Dupont -- letters crossed in the mail -- Georges wrote this without seeing the previous day's letter sent by the Fellowship.
February 22, 2000 -- Letter from Janet to Richard Keeler -- She complains about the manner in which Georges is entering into the discussion; again requests meeting with Trustees.
March 5, 2000 -- Letter from Georges Dupont -- Defends himself against claims that he is not negotiating in good faith made in Janet's letter to Richard Keeler of February 24, 2000.
March 8, 2000 -- Letter from Steve Dreier to Georges -- Steve notifies him that he will be taking over the correspondence on this matter while Janet's on vacation.
March 13, 2000 -- Letter from Steve to Georges -- comments to Georges that we will meet with his committee but would still like a meeting with the Trustees to review substantive issues.
March 16, 2000 -- Steve Dreier comments on situation -- withdraws suggestion regarding Dave Elders; comments on possible impact of source discoveries.
May 8, 2000 -- Steve Dreier comments on situation -- personal correspondence with David Kantor; includes copy of D. Kantor's original comments to Dan Massey regarding concessions made at the meeting with the Trustees.
April 2, 2000 -- Dupont-Graham correspondence -- Janet informs the Executive Committee about the context in which the attached note from Georges Dupont was written, in response to Janet's note to Richard Keeler regarding the lack of good faith negotiation.
April 8, 2000 -- Meeting with Trustees
Foundation's List of complaints regarding the website (Adobe Acrobat PDF format)
David Kantor's review of the Foundation's complaints
April 24, 2000 -- Letter from Dan Massey to Michael Coffield -- excellent review of overall situation prepared by Dan Massey for prospective Fellowship attorney.
June 10, 2000 -- Steve Dreier memo -- Notes that the entire Executive Committee needs to be involved in the present discussion.
David Kantor's review of website changes made to date
June 15, 2000 -- Letter from Foundation -- Their committee acknowledges Fellowship efforts at compliance with their requests; note areas remaining in need of attention.