1. We offer to
maintain current modifications of the Table of Contents to Part IV on our website
to address the Michelson-Dupont team’s initially expressed concerns. (We have
been advised in Ms. Shaffer’s letter that these changes are satisfactory.)
2.
We offer to make changes in notices of copyright claims on our website and other
explanatory material to make clear that, to the extent any copyright exists to
the Fellowship in the paper-section-paragraph reference system, or in any of the
formatting conventions used, or in any hyperlinked references in any of the files
of any translation, printing, or edition of the text of The Urantia Book
appearing on our website, we place it in the public domain and do not claim copyright.
We intend by this to accord to Urantia Foundation and all others equal rights
to use this material.
3. We offer to assure that all downloadable
files of the text of The Urantia Book on our website contain appropriate
notice of Urantia Foundation copyright claims.
4. We offer to expand
our website to present all Urantia Foundation’s translations, printings, and editions
of The Urantia Book, when available in usable digital form and subject
to the availability of our volunteer staff to complete formatting for acceptable
web presentation.
5. We offer to continue our present practice of
requiring all individuals accessing portions of our website containing independently
translated portions of The Urantia Book to register and obtain a personal
ID and password.
6. We offer to assure that all translations of
The Urantia Book on our website carry appropriate notices of Urantia Foundation
copyright claims.
7. We propose that, as part of this settlement,
the Foundation will license the Fellowship to present the works of William S.
Sadler on its website, in English and in translation to any other language, without
restriction. In return, the Fellowship agrees to assert no copyright claim in
the presentation of this material, or its original translations, to place any
Fellowship copyright interests that may exist in the public domain, and to make
the data files supporting the website presentation freely available to Urantia
Foundation to use at it sees fit.
8. We reiterate the apology to
Urantia Foundation issued by our initial discussion team for our oversight in
failing to include a proper notice of Urantia Foundation copyright claims in certain
issues of the Fellowship Herald magazine. It is the policy of The Urantia
Book Fellowship to place such a notice of the Foundation’s copyright claims
in all its publications. We have clearly communicated this policy to our Publications
Committee, and do not anticipate further problems.
9. We offer to
retitle "The Illustrated Urantia Book" on our website as "Illustrations for The
Urantia Book" or such other descriptive term as may be mutually acceptable
and to maintain a notice of Urantia Foundation’s copyright claims on these pages
of our website.
10. We offer to suspend solicitation of translators
of The Urantia Book on our website until the Foundation’s copyright claims
lapse under applicable law or treaty.
11. We offer to retain the
current version of our hyperlink to Michael Foundation, which refers only to Mr.
McMullan’s Index, so long as the copyright status of Jesus: A New Revelation
remains in litigation.
12. We offer to place a disclaimer on
any documents on our website considered anti-Foundation, which may be identified
at a future time through discussion with Urantia Foundation Trustees.
13.
We offer to maintain and strengthen our current disclaimers of affiliation with
Urantia Foundation, including but not limited to disclaimers related to our Urantianet
service, to show the Trustees where these notices appear, and to make reasonable
modification in their presentation, if deemed necessary.
14. We
offer to add to the page of our website that offers The Urantia Book for
sale, a notice to the effect that the Fellowship is not currently a publisher
or distributor of the book and that the book prices shown on our website are from
vendors other than The Urantia Book Fellowship.
15. We offer
to delete the metatags "Foundation" and "International Association" from our website.
We further offer to limit use of metatags "Urantia Foundation" and "International
Urantia Association" to pages on which news or opinion is presented about those
organizations.
16. We offer to direct the RealName "Urantia" to
a separate, anonymous website which offers the choice of a direct link to Urantia
Foundation or to The Urantia Book Fellowship. We make this offer because
it is our understanding that current RealNames policy precludes the transfer or
re-registration of a word like "Urantia" as a RealName. We believe it is in the
best interests of the Urantia movement as a whole to preserve this functionality
and therefore offer to share it with Urantia Foundation.
17. We
offer to continue our current practice of not displaying Urantia Foundation’s
translator’s agreement on our website.
We additionally
offer to meet with the full Board of Trustees of Urantia Foundation, with or without
legal counsel to both parties present, to discuss these and other matters and
to arrive at a final, absolute, and conclusive resolution of all issues raised
by the Foundation. If this is not acceptable to the Trustees, we suggest selecting
a mediator and participating in formal mediation.