Piotr Wasilewski, PhD
Bio
Piotr specializes in media and advertising law, particularly with regard to electronic media, and new technologies law and intellectual property law, advising on a range of issues, as well as in litigation, with particular emphasis on the protection of personality rights on the Internet. He provides legal support to clients providing online services for projects involving the implementation of the Digital Services Act. At our Law Firm, he is responsible for the Media Communication & Entertainment Practice.
Piotr is a founding member of the New Technologies Law Association (SPNT) and a member of the E-sport Team at the Polish Chamber of Information Technology and Telecommunications (PIIT). An arbitrator of the Ethics Commission for Advertising, which acts through the Advertising Council. He is a permanent adviser to the IAB Poland Internet Industry Employers’ Association. In 2005 and 2006, he acted as legal counsel to the Creative Common movement in Poland.
He speaks at conferences in Poland and elsewhere, and conducts specialist training courses on intellectual property law and a broad range of Internet law issues. He is also a postgraduate course lecturer (Jagiellonian University, Polish Academy of Sciences). He is the author of numerous academic publications, including two monographies: Open Content. Zagadnienia prawne [Open Content. Legal aspects] and Wolność prasowej wypowiedzi satyrycznej. Studium cywilistyczne na tle porównawczym [Freedom of press satirical expression. Civil law study with comparisons].
He is a graduate of the Faculty of Law and Administration at the Jagiellonian University, and completed postgraduate studies on intellectual property law.
He advises Clients in Polish and English.
