November 13, 2000

The Fellowship
529 West Wrightwood Avenue
Chicago, Illinois 60614

Dear Avi, Marilyn, Marvin, David, and Dan,

Thank you for your letter dated September 21, 2000, concerning copyright and trademark infringements on the Fellowship's Web site.

We want you to know that we value many of the Fellowship's efforts to disseminate the teachings of The Urantia Book.  We would like to have a cooperative relationship with the Fellowship.  We hope that you will take seriously our desire to promote improved relations, and that you will join us in this effort. 

We have reviewed the offers made in your letter, and the Trustees and the Foundation's negotiating team have again reviewed the Fellowship's Web site.  We cannot see that any meaningful changes have been made on the Fellowship's Web site to render it infringement free since the April 8, 2000 meeting between the Foundation's negotiating team and the Fellowship's first negotiating team.  Our apparent failure to obtain your cooperation saddens us.

During the last few years, we have observed much healing between the Fellowship, the International Urantia Association, and the Urantia Foundation, particularly among individuals.  Many of our brothers and sisters in the Fellowship are working cooperatively with the Foundation.  We hope for such cooperation at all levels.

We would suggest the following: 

1. Steve Hill, the Foundation's intellectual properties legal counsel, and Ross Plourde, the Fellowship's legal counsel, will be discussing the alleged infringements on the Fellowship's Web site on Wednesday, December 13, 2001, in Oklahoma City.

We suggest that Avi Dogim, President of the Fellowship, and Richard Keeler, President of Urantia Foundation, attend this meeting to observe, listen, and learn from the discussion by legal counsel of the infringement issues.  We suggest that Avi and Richard each ask one other person to accompany them.

2.  We suggest that there be a meeting between the Executive Committee of the Fellowship and representatives of the Foundation.  The Foundation's representatives would comprise the Trustees, the Foundation's negotiating team, and perhaps additional representatives from the International Urantia Association.  The Fellowship would, of course, select its own representatives, but we would prefer to meet with the Fellowship's entire Executive Committee.  If you choose, however, to bring only your negotiating team, we would also encourage you to bring your legal council so that there may be a clear discussion on all these matters.

We suggest the meeting be in Chicago on Friday and Saturday, January 19 and 20, 2001.  We sincerely hope that after two days, there will be a resolution of our differences concerning the Fellowship's Web site.

3.  We also suggest that a mediator, acceptable to both parties, be engaged.

          We pray that we may find resolution to our differences, and that there be unity in our young movement and cooperation between our organizations.

Sincerely,

The Trustees of Urantia Foundation

The Negotiation Team