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 Hatzis Georgios Hatzis Georgios Hatzis (, 1881–1930), also known under the pen name Pelleren, was a Greek author and journalist. Hatzis was born in Ioannina, northwestern Greece, when the city was still part of the Janina Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire. He graduated from the Zosimaia School of Ioannina and then went to the University of Athens, where he studied Medicine. However, he could not finish his studies due to financial difficulties. Hatzis then went back to Ioannina and became a teacher in Vourbiani, Konitsa. In 1909 Hatzis was appointed editor of the newspaper "Epirus" (Ήπειρος), by the "Hellenic Political Association