| Monique Wadsted | |
|---|---|
 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
Wadsted received an LLM from Stockholm University in 1988 and clerked for the Stockholm District Court in 1989–90. Before moving to Bird & Bird, she was a partner at Magnusson Wahlin Qvist Stanbrook (MAQS) Advokatbyrå. In 2017, she was named one of the top 250 women in intellectual property law by Managing Intellectual Property.
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
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.
Later she represented firms including Warner Bros., Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Columbia Pictures, 20th Century Fox in The Pirate Bay trial. At the trial, she argued that The Pirate Bay was not "passive" in its distribution of content. She was doxxed while the trial proceeded.
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. 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.
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. She also represented Fredrik Virtanen in legal proceedings related to his defamation suit against Cissi Wallin.
References
- ^ Martindale-Hubbell International Law Directory. Martindale-Hubbell. 2003. p. EU1633B.
- ^ 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.