Dear Webmaster,

From your website it appears that we share the common goal of isseminating the teachings of The Urantia Book to the world. May we ask that you cooperate with Urantia Foundation in your efforts? The Trustees of Urantia Foundation are entrusted with responsibility for helping to uplift the peoples of our planet through the teachings found in The Urantia Book. As much as possible, we do this in cooperation with the many people around the world who have discovered the book and are interested in helping to spread the information they have learned.

One of the duties of the Trustees is to publish the inviolate text of The Urantia Book and to maintain control over the reproduction of the text and the translations of the book. The copyright and the trademarks “Urantia,” “Urantian,” and the Concentric-Circles Symbol serve to identify the publications and services of Urantia Foundation around the world. The copyright laws give Urantia Foundation the exclusive right to publish translations.

As you may be aware, a team of translators in Brazil is working on behalf of Urantia Foundation to translate the book into Portuguese. Others in Brazil are working cooperatively with Urantia Foundation to create websites and other works. If you are interested in assisting with any of these projects, please let us know. It is our hope that we may be united as we seek to present the teachings to Portuguese-speaking people.

However, we respectfully request that you refrain from using Urantia and the Concentric-Circles Symbol on your website because these are registered trademarks of Urantia Foundation. If this is a personal website of na individual, there are certain uses permitted by Urantia Foundation’s policies, available in English on their website at
http://www.urantia.org/policies_personal_use.html. (If you do not read English, please let me know and I will attempt to translate relevant sections of the policies.) The use of “Urantia” and the Concentric-Circles Symbol on your website is likely to cause confusion because Urantia Foundation uses these to identify its publications and services in Brazil and all around the world.

In addition, we respectfully request that you remove the Portuguese translation of papers from The Urantia Book from your website. This is an infringement of the copyright in The Urantia Book.

We are very much in support of the kinds of outreach and educational work that can be done via the Internet, and we encourage your efforts along these lines. We simply ask that you refrain from using the trademarks "Urantia," "Urantian," and the Concentric-Circles Symbol and that you remove the unauthorized translation of material from The Urantia Book from your website. May we have your cooperation in this?

I look forward to discussing these matters with you further. If you would prefer to discuss this by telephone please give me your telephone number and let me know a good time to call. Our representative Luiz Carlos Dolabella Chagas has offered to assist with translating as needed. He is also the person to speak with concerning activities in Brazil. Luiz can be reached at the email address shown above.

In friendship,

Mindy Williams
Urantia Foundation
533 W. Diversey Parkway
Chicago, IL 60614
Email: mwilliams@urantia.org <mailto:mwilliams@urantia.org>
Web: http://www.urantia.org
Phone: 773/525-3319

Hello,

We wrote to you recently about your website.  We have not received any
response from you, and our representative in Brazil has contacted
vila.bol.com.br to notify them this website infringes the copyright and
trademarks of Urantia Foundation.  It appears they have shut down the site
because of this infringement.

We still hope you will consider working to make resources available in
Portuguese in ways that do not interfere with the responsibilities entrusted
to Urantia Foundation of publishing the Urantia Book and its translations.
We would like to discuss this with you and invite you to contact me.

Mindy Williams
Urantia Foundation, USA