Dear Mr. Goodman,

Thank you for your e-mail earlier today. I am glad to see you take such matters seriously, as do I. Rest assured that if I had inferred copyright infringement you would not be hearing about it via an online forum posted comment, but from my lawyers.

As you are no doubt aware, any ‘innuendo’ to which you refer is simply one party’s proposed explanation of the meaning of a set of words alleged to be defamatory where the defamatory meaning is not apparent. It is certainly not the only possible explanation, and it is certainly not my explanation, but yours, and one arrived at rather tenuously. I put it to you that the reason any defamatory meaning is not apparent is because it is entirely absent from my own original meaning and intent, and that your allegation is groundless. Had I wished to make a defamatory comment I would have done so clearly. There is certainly a comment made by another party within the same thread that does make an explicitly disparaging and defamatory remark, i.e. that most of the Wachowskis' work is "...sheer and utter garbage," a view which I do not share, and I am forced to wonder if you have challenged them in this fashion, also, but suspect that you have not.

The online posted comment to which you refer, made in a forum where such comments were encouraged, was simply my freely expressed and genuine concern, evidenced in my use of the word ‘hope’, that the as-yet-publicly-undisclosed finer details of the Sense8 milieu, to which I am certainly not privy, do not, by the producers’ and developers’ own original efforts and endeavours, arrive at a ‘duplicate’ of, i.e. exactly like or corresponding to, the description of technology and ideas presented within my own work, thereby detracting from my own original efforts and endeavours, as well as from their own. I then provided an overview of my own story’s milieu so that readers could understand my concern, again based on perceived similarities with the little information publicly available concerning Sense8. I am sure you are also aware, as am I, that any such similarities, even should they actually exist, which is at this point in time certainly not clear, would not constitute copyright infringement. I do not believe, nor was there any such inference, i.e. conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning, in my online posted comment, that the producers and developers of Sense8 have in any way infringed on the content of my own novel, Primed.

For your peace of mind and satisfaction, I hereby confirm that there has been no exchange of material in either direction between myself and the producing or developing parties of Sense8.

Thank you for your attention in this matter, and for allowing me the opportunity to more clearly describe my original intent and meaning. If you wish, I will be happy to post your message and this response on the internet so that interested third parties can see for themselves that I harbour no ill intent and wish the producers and developers of Sense8, for whom I have the greatest respect, success in their original efforts and endeavours.

Yours Sincerely,

G P Francis