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
Georgios Panagiotopoulos (politician) Georgios Panagiotopoulos (politician) Georgios Panagiotopoulos (born 1 January 1930) is a Greek lawyer and politician. The son of politician Nikolaos Panagiotopoulos, a former MP of the People's Party, Georgios Panagiotopoulos was born in Kavala. After he completed his law studies at the University of Athens, he returned to his hometown and started a career as a lawyer. Immediately after the dictatorship, he became involved in politics. In the first elections in 1974, he was elected MP from Kavala under the banner of the New Democracy party and was appointed undersecretary of Commerce (1974–1977). Reelected MP in 1977, he was appointed