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 Tombras Georgios Tombras Georgios Tombras (, translit. "Georgios Tombras") was a Greek military officer who became a guerrilla leader in the Macedonian Struggle in the early 20th century under the "nom de guerre" Roupakias (Ρουπακιάς). Georgios Tombras was born in the then mostly Greek-speaking Asia Minor city of Kydonies (also known as Aivali, present-day Ayvalık). He was commissioned a lieutenant and served in the Greek Army as a pharmacist. He went to Macedonia in 1905 as a secretary in the detachment of Stavros Rigas ("Captain Kavodoros"), later he was with rebel Georgios Katechakis ("Captain Rouvas") in Kastoria. In September 1906 he