Panayiotou v Sony Music Entertainment (UK) Ltd the copyright to Sony for many years, leaving him no control over how the music would be marketed nor placing a reciprocal requirement that the label invest in promotion. Had the case succeeded, it might have curtailed the practice of signing artists to multi-album contracts. The court wholly rejected the claims. Georgios Panayiotou, known professionally as George Michael, signed with Innervision Records in 1982 at the age of eighteen as part of the then relatively unknown pop duo Wham!. Innervision were distributed by CBS Records. In 1984 this contract was nullified as part of a legal compromise wherein Wham! were
Kyriacos Tsolakis Kyriacos Tsolakis Kyriacos (Kerry) Tsolakis (born 23 January 1948 in Agros) is a Cypriot architect and politician. He serves as Honorary President of the Repatriated Cypriots of Australia. Having moved to Australia in 1972, Kyriacos became a key figure in the Cypriot diaspora and repatriated Cypriot communities of Australia, founding the Cyprus Hellenic Club of Melbourne and serving as vice-president of the Federation of Cyprus Hellenic Associations of Australia for ten years. In parallel to his architectural career, Tsolakis served as President of the Cyprus Hellenic Club for ten years and Secretary of the Coordinated Committee for Justice in Cyprus