Photographer Matthew Rosenberg’s image of tiny downtown music/art venue The Garage is the subject of his lawsuit.
PHOTO BY MATTHEW ROSENBERG

It was a tiny picture of a tiny music venue, and it was posted just twice on a local blogger’s site, but the aggrieved photographer who snapped it says compensation needs to be made— compensation to the tune of $385,000.

The federal lawsuit filed May 15 demands as much from gossip site cVillain.com and its owner, Kyle Redinger. The litigant, Charlottesville photographer Matthew Rosenberg, claims Redinger violated his copyright by hosting and showing the thumbnail image without permission.

“If filing a lawsuit over something so trivial is not overkill,” says veteran intellectual property lawyer Sheldon Parker, “then I don’t know what would constitute overkill.”

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