Forum Moderators: martinibuster
This sentence from Adsense policies,
"Copyrighted Material: In order to avoid associations with copyright claims, website publishers may not display Google ads on web pages with MP3, Video, News Groups, and Image Results." has me stumped as to its' exact meaning.
Particularly the 'and Image results'... Image results = any of MY webpages that have an image on them? The word Results sounds like some sort of search results.
People submitting pictures would kind of be the core of this website I want to start building. Does this Adsense policy pretty much eliminate a website full of user submitted pictures?
1) The safest thing to do is ask Google.
2) You do run the risk of copyright violations if you let users submit images, so you need to make it very clear to users that the only permitted images are pictures they've take or created themselves. If you have any doubts about the maturity of your users, be extremely cautious.
Recently in WebmasterWorld I've read where one guy has 3000 photos on his site, so simply having pics must not be an Adsense TOS violation in and of itself.
I guess I'd try and make sure every page has references to copyright violations etc, and has a notation for any picture owner who feels their copyright has been violated to contact me so I can remove the picture(s).
- There's so much picture posting going on in 100,000s of forums etc, it'd seem there more of a chance picture owners don't care rather than a huge continuing threat of complaints.
But I'll leave the door open for it just in case.
1) The safest thing to do is ask Google.
2) You do run the risk of copyright violations if you let users submit images, so you need to make it very clear to users that the only permitted images are pictures they've take or created themselves. If you have any doubts about the maturity of your users, be extremely cautious.
This is freaking hilarious, considering Google run just about the most effective image copyright infringement source on the planet in Google Images.
Methinks google would like worldwide copyright laws re-written to something like: "You may not copy, redistribute, or resell any material herein (unless, of course, it is cached and redistrubuted via a Google server)"
Anybody else note a touch of hypocrisy here?
Google did not, when I last looked, display ads in image search, and thus G avoids directly profiting from such third-party images, and thus abides by its own rules and by a reasonable interpretation of "fair use".
Rgds
Damon
There's so much picture posting going on in 100,000s of forums etc, it'd seem there more of a chance picture owners don't care rather than a huge continuing threat of complaints.
The thing is that it might only take ONE complaint to get your AdSense account pulled.
