Pre bankruptcy copyright settled on Science, People & Politics.
Halifax County Court seals disclaimer by Official Receiver to interest in the Company, Science, People and Politics Ltd.,
Company Number 05901911
and
interest in the domaine, www.gavaghancommunications.com,
and
to copyright in any work held by Helen Gavaghan on 8th November, 2006.
Between 2nd and 9th January, 2008 the following confirmed that they transfer copyright of their work, all rights reserved, that GavaghanCommunications
published in the title, Science, People & Politics (ISSN 1751-598X on line) prior to 8th November, 2006, the date on which Helen Gavaghan, trading sometimes as GavaghanCommunications submitted a debtor's petition for bankruptcy, to the title, Science, People & Politics (ISSN: 1751-598X on line):
Professor MB Bayley, Rensellaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York State;
Ms P Cleggett, Vanderbilt University, Washington DC campus;
Ms H. Gavaghan, publisher and editor, Science, People & Politics (ISSN:1751-598X on line), and founding director of the company, Science, People and Politics Ltd., Co. No. 05901911;
Professor Arie S. Issar, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel.
Mr Fred Pearce, journalist, author, managing director of Science, People and Politics Ltd. and deputy editor of Science, People & Politics (ISSN 1751-598X on line)
The print version of the tri-annual publication, produced as a bimonthly in electronic format, will reflect these new transfers of copyright.
On 10th January, 2008 I received a letter from Mr DC Brogan addressed to me, Helen Gavaghan, as publisher, editor, journalist, writer and website manager concerning disclaimers to property.
I was aware of the Official Receiver's intent but have argued to the Office of the Official Receiver that they ought to consider auctioning the title. I was unaware that Mr Brogan had already submitted the disclaimer to the Court and until yesterday was doing what I could to strengthen the title and make it more attractive to buy.
I will now try simply to make the title more attractive to authors, readers, writers and customers (advertisers).
I confirmed today to an insolvency examiner and before receiving the letter from the Official Receiver that I understood that realisations from property owned by myself prior to bankruptcy were part of my estate in bankruptcy. This includes any artwork that might appreciate in value, and now excludes copyrights that were mine at the time of bankruptcy and have been transferred to me and, presumably, the algorithm supplied to me by Mr Austin Jones that enables the right click option to be disabled. No money changed hands.
The copyright for that algorithm was never transferred to me and Mr Jones tells me the algorithm is not his, but that he thinks it is freely available. Given that my intent would be to use the algorithm to disable the right click if that is what advertisers want me as publisher to do, this question needs to be settled. I will strive to ensure that I can provide the option of disabling the right click. Advertisers could then buy space with the right click disable option, or they could provide their own, basic html or a jpeg of gif image of their advert, with the text provided in the title field.
The original target customers I had in mind when I first started to think sometime in early 2006 of a title as a means of remaining professionally visible whilst trying to stave of bankruptcy were: publishing companies, highly regulated industries such as banks, financial institutions, pharmaceutical and Telecoms markets, IGOs, NGOs, and Higher Education.
The document carrying the Halifax County Court seal, referring to Case 362 of 2006, Halifax County Court, formally waived in Mr Brogan's name claim in the company, Science, People and Politics Ltd. (Co.No. 059019911); claim in the domain www.gavaghancommunications.com; and claim in the copyright owned by me (Helen Gavaghan) in Science, People & Politics (ISSN: 1751-598X on line).
I, the publisher of the title, Science, People & Politics (ISSN 1751-598X on line) today notified the managing director and the company secretary of Mr Brogan's letter.
Tomorrow morning, g.m.t., I will request that the company secretary reissue the majority shareholding in the company to me, Helen Gavaghan. Once that is done I will invite Mr F. Pearce to remain as the managing director of the dormant, non-trading, but active company, Science, People and Politics Ltd.
I will invite Mr Pearce to accept the right to first refusal of the post of managing director of an active company if the company ever becomes active.
For the short time I was the sole director I invited Mr Pearce to be my co director and as publisher transferred ownership of the title to the company. This history can be read in the early press releases which I prepared as GavaghanCommunications.
Mr Pearce's current role is unsalaried.
The Official Receiver's office has told me that I can again be a company director.
If I do so within the company, Science, People and Politics Ltd., Mr Pearce would remain the managing director and I would be a director. In that role I would be available to take on the task either of Company Secretary or Managing Director if needed. The same would apply were I to remain as the publisher.
The company's assets comprise the title, Science, People & Politics and £10 cash in hand. The £10 cash in hand is because the Official Receiver returned to Mr Broadbent the money I had sent via Mr Broadbent to them for the called up shares.
Mr Broadbent agreed to accept one of the additional 8 shares I bought after the first two were transferred to me from the agents who founded the company on my instruction in the first place. This means that Mr Broadbent currently has a 10 per cent stake in the company and exercises a powerful braking role on any decisions the managing director might make as to the disposal of the 990 shares now at his disposal.
I was discharged from bankruptcy on the anniversary of the order having been made. There are no bankruptcy restriction orders or undertakings against me.
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