matt buchanan is a thief

stop, thief!, originally uploaded by ashleyv.

While imitation is the most sincere form of flattery, outright theft of copyrighted images just pisses me off. That's a photo taken BY ME at the Lucky Oliver party earlier this year. (See the All Rights Reserved photograph proverbial ball and chain). And it's being used without my permission, and with no attribution, in a post by Matt Buchanan on Gizmodo. It has been downloaded to their asset server and is being served up as if it was taken by Matt or is stock photography owned by Gizmodo. Which it sure as hell is not. I believe that is copyright infringement. Law friends, help me out here...

How do you think I should handle this, dear readers? I could email him at matt@gizmodo.com, I could contact Gizmodo, I suppose I could even contact Gawker Media. But right now I'm a little hot under the collar, so I'd appreciate any sensible, cool-headed advice you can give.

UPDATE: See the tiny orange link at the end of the post that says "Flickr"? That links to the photo in my photostream, and I guess they consider that adequate attibution? I don't. If you use my photos, the page should explicitly give me photo credit. They are definitely going to hear from me.