Current Foundation Issues
What's New With Urantia Foundation? What
are they up to now? ...sigh
More lies...
After
losing at the Supreme Court, Urantia Foundation campaigns to smear and
discredit printings of the Urantia Revelation not printed by them, the
so-called (by them) "authorized publisher."
UF says: "Please be aware that
some stores have replaced the original Urantia Book with substitutes
published by other publishers. ...Some popularized version may supplant the
original, inviolate text. [1]
By purchasing only the original,
identified with the Concentric-Circles Symbol, you can help ensure that it
will not be left to market forces to determine the content of the Urantia
Book available to the world in the years to come. [2] Insist on editions
published by Urantia Foundation, the original and authorized publisher [3]
committed to safeguarding the inviolate text for future generations."
[4]
Notes: [1] UF does not print the
inviolate text itself and has not since 1967 and refuses to footnote or
endnote the changes it has made or to publish any notice in their books that
any changes have been made, in spite of their Declaration of Trust requiring
them to keep the text "inviolate."
[2] The Concentric-Circles Symbol is
no guarantee of anything with regard to the inviolateness of the text of the
Urantia Revelation. Neither the circles nor the copyright nor the Declaration
of Trust has kept UF from altering the text. And the circles are the Banner
of Michael and the emblem of the Paradise Trinity which UF has appropriated
for its own private use as a corporate commercial product trademark like
"Coca-Cola," which UF has put on coffee mugs, baseball caps,
T-shirts, high-ball glasses, hooded sweatshirts, pens and polo shirts,
complete with the "R" registered trademark symbol, all of which is
designed to make you think of UF when you see it rather than of the celestial
government of Michael and the Paradise Trinity.
[3] "Authorized publisher?"
By whom? By God? UF is not the only "authorized" publisher,
contrary to what they claim. The recent Supreme Court actions with regard to
the lawsuit over UF's invalid copyright of the text of the Revelation
authorizes anyone who wishes to publish the text to do so.
[4] UF has not safeguarded the
inviolate text for future generations, in fact, it has altered the text and
refuses to footnote or endnote in the book itself the changes it has made, or
to include any notice whatsoever in their books that any changes have been
made. Every time UF says their books contain the "inviolate text," UF
lies once again. Do you love UF? Are you a UF supporter? If so, contact the
trustees and ask them to print the inviolate text or footnote the changes
they've made, in the books they sell.
All Nebadon Bulletin!
October
6, 2003
The
U. S. Supreme Court drives the last
nail into Urantia Foundation's iniquitous 20
year quest for power, reign of religious terror, and abuse of the U. S. legal system, U. S. copyright law, and believers in
the Revelation.
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The Urantia Papers are FREE at last!
Urantia
Foundation's reign of religious tyranny ended June 20, 2001.
Jury unanimously finds 1983
copyright renewal illegal.
Text of the Urantia Papers now in
the public domain.
Harry McMullan's separate
publication of Part IV vindicated.
"Free at last, free at last.
Thank God Almighty, we're free at last."
-Martin Luther King
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URANTIA FOUNDATION’S UNBELIEVABLE NEW PUBLIC
LIES!
"...There
is no plot. The book does not endeavor to tell a single story. It is exactly
what it appears to be: a series of independent, self-contained
writings."
(Old) Follow-ups #2 & #3
The decision of the
United States Court of Appeals:
CONCLUSION: Viewing the evidence in
the light most favorable to Michael Foundation, we find that substantial
evidence supports the jury's determination that The Urantia Book is neither a
composite nor a commissioned work. We therefore AFFIRM the district court's
denial of Urantia Foundation’s renewed motion for judgment as a matter of
law. Because the trial court did not abuse its broad discretion in excluding,
on grounds of unfair surprise, the testimony of Barbara Newsom as to the
contents of purported secret journals, we AFFIRM the district court's denial
of Urantia Foundation's motion for a new trial. ENTERED FOR THE COURT, Deanell
Reece Tacha Chief Circuit Judge
And finally, the Appellate Court has
denied Urantia Foundation a re-hearing.
Urantia Foundation defies US Court
After 50 years of defying the Master ("Forbid
him not" Jesus taught), forbidding people from spreading the Revelation
in their own ways and as the Spirit moved them, and going to law against
believers ("Be willing to suffer injustice rather than to go to law
among yourselves"), Urantia Foundation now defies the Court. Judge Lee
R. West and a jury unanimously declared Urantia Foundation's copyright
invalid and unenforceable, yet Urantia Foundation arrogantly stated in their
"Community Announcement" of
July 10, 2001:
"We will continue to display the copyright
notice in the English books..."
Click here
for text copies of the Judge and jury
judgments against Urantia Foundation.
Urantia Foundation Slips Farther into Unreality and Denial
"Update"
on Copyright Appeal from UF's website, October 2003
On
October 6, 2003, the U.S. Supreme Court denied Urantia
Foundation’s request to review the decision of the 10th Circuit Court of
Appeals in the case of Michael Foundation, Inc. v. Urantia Foundation. The
Supreme Court’s action allows that decision to stand with respect to the
lawsuit brought in
Oklahoma by Harry McMullan III concerning the unauthorized
publication of the majority of Part IV of The Urantia Book as a separate
work. In that case a jury had held The Urantia Book did not meet the criteria
for renewal copyright protection as a composite work or a commissioned work.
It is uncertain what the implications of the 10th
Circuit decision may be with respect to others not a party to the
Oklahoma lawsuit. In a separate case, the
Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held that The Urantia Book is a composite work
as a matter of law, and that Urantia Foundation is therefore entitled to
renewal copyright protection for the book. It is clear that the Oklahoma decision does not apply to any
international copyright in The Urantia Book nor to any of the translations,
which are covered by separate copyrights.
As soon as further information becomes available to
clarify the implications of this decision we will provide the reader
community with additional information.
Are you a UF supporter? Consider this:
According to Urantia Foundation's 2002 Annual Report, Urantia
Foundation spends $90,000 per year on upkeep on the dump at
533 Diversey Parkway. Unbelievable! That's
a lot of overhead for janitorial work and roof patching. That's over a
quarter of a million dollars every three years just to keep a roof over
Urantia Foundation's head and impress visiting dignitaries. It smacks of the
ostentatious trappings of "very important people" much like the
Arab sheiks and their gold plated toilet seats. What a waste of the
supporters' money to spend $90,000 a year for that building.
The Declaration of Good
Intentions
What Urantia Foundation Must Do.