Monique Wadsted
Monique Wadsted | |
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 Wadsted during The Pirate Bay trial, 2009. | |
| Nationality | Swedish |
| Education | Stockholm University (LLM, 1988) |
| Occupation | Lawyer |
| Employer | Bird & Bird |
Monique Wadsted is a Swedish lawyer. She is a partner at Bird & Bird in Stockholm.
Career
[edit]Wadsted received an LLM from Stockholm University in 1988 and clerked for the Stockholm District Court in 1989–90.[1] Before moving to Bird & Bird, she was a partner at Magnusson Wahlin Qvist Stanbrook (MAQS) Advokatbyrå.[1][2] In 2017, she was named one of the top 250 women in intellectual property law by Managing Intellectual Property.[3]
Monique Wadsted is since 2017 included in the Hall of Fame of The Legal 500 for her work in intellectual property law and media law.
Cases
[edit]She represented Swedish Match in a case regarding the borders between freedom of speech and advertising. She has also represented Duracell against Philips, KF against Gillette, Canal+ against TV1000, and Duka against Bodum.[citation needed]
Later she represented firms including Warner Bros., Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Columbia Pictures, 20th Century Fox in The Pirate Bay trial.[4][5] At the trial, she argued that The Pirate Bay was not "passive" in its distribution of content.[6] She was doxxed while the trial proceeded.[2]
In 2014 she represented the journalist Pia Gadd in Svensson v Retriever Sverige AB, a case before the Court of Justice of the European Union regarding linking and copyright.[7] The law in Svensson was later developed in cases such as GS Media v Sanoma.
In 2017 she represented Bringwell Sverige AB before the Supreme Court of Sweden in a case regarding damages caused by an interim injunction. The case regarded the legal basis for damages, calculation of damages and evidence of commercial loss.[citation needed]
In 2019 she represented the scientific publisher Elsevier by sending a cease and desist letter to the edtech company Citationsy for linking to Sci-Hub on their blog.[8] She also represented Fredrik Virtanen in legal proceedings related to his defamation suit against Cissi Wallin.[9]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Martindale-Hubbell International Law Directory. Martindale-Hubbell. 2003. p. EU1633B.
- ^ a b Daly, Steven (March 2007). "Pirates of the Multiplex". Vanity Fair. Archived from the original on 8 June 2020. Retrieved 23 September 2020.
- ^ Egbuonu, Kingsley (21 May 2017). "The Top 250 Women in IP (2017)". Managing Intellectual Property. ProQuest 1962313530.
- ^ Associated Press (26 November 2010). "Swedish Court Upholds Convictions in File-Sharing Case". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 12 June 2020. Retrieved 23 September 2020.
- ^ "US embassy cables: Sweden's concerns about Anti-Counterfeit Trading Agreement negotiations". The Guardian. 22 December 2010. Archived from the original on 9 June 2019. Retrieved 23 September 2020.
- ^ Larsson, Stefan (2 January 2017). Conceptions in the Code: How Metaphors Explain Legal Challenges in Digital Times. Oxford University Press. pp. 12–13. ISBN 978-0-19-065039-1. Archived from the original on 23 September 2020. Retrieved 23 September 2020.
- ^ Svensson v Retriever Sverige AB, Case C‑466/12 Archived 23 September 2020 at the Wayback Machine, 13 February 2014, Court of Justice of the European Union.
- ^ Doctorow, Cory (2 August 2019). "Elsevier sends copyright threat to site for linking to Sci-Hub". BoingBoing. Archived from the original on 16 June 2020. Retrieved 23 September 2020.
- ^ "#MeToo defamation trial kicks off in Sweden". The Local. 21 November 2019. Archived from the original on 22 November 2019. Retrieved 23 September 2020.
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