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The Urantia Foundation is a Chicago-based non-profit organization, founded in 1950, that provides materials, promotes events, and provides guidance associated with The Urantia Book.

Purpose

The main purpose of the foundation is to provide for the dissemination of The Urantia Book and to ensure that the text remains as unaltered as possible. It published the first copy of the book to be made available to the public in 1955. The organization maintains integrity of the text and authorizes specific translations. The Urantia Foundation was inaugurated to preserve exclusive domain over the names "The URANTIA BOOK," "Urantia Brotherhood," "Urantia Foundation," and "Urantia Society" for at least one generation.[1]

In 1995, a United States jury trial in Arizona found that the Urantia Foundation's 1983 renewal of the book's copyright was invalid.[2] However, that decision was overturned on appeal.[3]

In 2001, a United States jury trial in Oklahoma again found that the Urantia Foundation's 1983 renewal of the book's copyright was invalid.[4] However, this decision was upheld in the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit,[5] creating a circuit split as to whether the English version of the book is considered to have entered the public domain in the US as of 1983. In 2006, the international copyright on the English text expired.[6]

The Urantia Foundation placed the three blue concentric circles logo on the cover of The Urantia Book and has a United States trademark for that symbol. The circles are also used with foundation approval to indicate other affiliated organizations.

See also

References

  1. ↑Page 7: THE PLAN FOR THE URANTIA BOOK REVELATION By Carolyn B. Kendall http://www.squarecircles.com/UrantiaMovementHistory/pdf/PlanForUrantiaBookRevelation.pdfArchived 2012-01-27 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ↑Urantia Foundation v. Maaherra (D. Ariz. 1995)
  3. ↑Urantia Foundation v. Maaherra (9th Cir. 1997)
  4. ↑ Michael Foundation, Inc. contra Urantia Foundation contra Harry McMullan, III. Archivado el 5 de septiembre de 2008 en Wayback Machine. Decisión del Tribunal de Distrito de EE. UU. por jurado que dictaminó que Urantia Foundation no posee los derechos de autor de The Urantia Book.
  5. ↑ Michael Foundation, Inc. contra Urantia Foundation contra Harry McMullan, III. El Tribunal de Apelaciones de EE. UU. confirma la decisión del jurado de que Urantia Foundation no tenía una renovación válida de derechos de autor. El libro de Urantia.
  6. ↑ "Informe anual de la Fundación Urantia 2006" (PDF) . urantia.org. Archivado del original (PDF) el 13 de mayo de 2008. Consultado el 15 de marzo de 2008 .

Lecturas adicionales

  • Lewis, Sarah (2012). «El libro de Urantia» . En Partridge, Christopher (ed.). Religiones OVNI . Routledge. pp. 144–145 . ISBN  978-1-135-25159-8.
  • Rapport, Jeremy (2010). «La Fundación Urantia» . En Melton, J. Gordon; Baumann, Martin (eds.). Religiones del mundo: Una enciclopedia completa de creencias y prácticas . Vol.  1 (2.ª  ed.). ABC-CLIO. pp. 3021–3022 . ISBN  978-1-59884-204-3.
  • Rhee, Christina (1998). "Urantia Foundation v. Maaherra". Berkeley Technology Law Journal . 13 (1): 69– 81. JSTOR 24116666 . 
  • Fundación Urantia