Out of Interest: are they allowed to do this?

Surely he owns copyright, and his work is being published without consent?

That's very interesting. Where did you hear that?

Or should I say... could you please add a citation? ;)

Gawker article has a line saying something like "some charts and links were omitted"

Without the links it looks like a bunch of totally unsubstantiated arguments. With the links, parts of it are better substantiated.