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 Lassanis of Ypsilantis, Lassanis returned to Greece. In Greece he took part in the Greek revolution with Dimitrios Ypsilantis. After the establishment of the first Greek state he became general inspector of the army of eastern Greece, and in 1837 he became finance minister. He died at the age of 77, in 1870. Georgios Lassanis' mansion is preserved in a square of Kozani, which bears his name ("Plateia Lassani"), and it is used as the Municipal Map Library. In his honor, the municipality of Kozani holds a "Lassaneia festival" every August, with theatre, concerts, athletic events, etc. kozanh.gr Georgios Lassanis Georgios