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Need advice on AdSense copyright and fair use policies

         

online0227

4:34 pm on Sep 7, 2020 (gmt 0)

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I run gaming website, and have contents that uses images of games that is took from PS4.
In those screenshots, there are copyright logo at bottom & right of the image. It just gets automatically put into there when taking screenshot on PS4.

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But I thought it is ok because it can be considered as "fair use" since what we are doing here is basically reviewing on what is strong or weak things in video games, and introduce to other people.

Also there is video of gameplay, it's main purpose is to show how to play well, so I also think showing such vidoes is considered as fair use.

Is it ok for adsense, or should I delete images, videos?

[edited by: not2easy at 4:42 pm (utc) on Sep 7, 2020]
[edit reason] Please see ToS [webmasterworld.com] [/edit]

matbennett

7:59 am on Sep 8, 2020 (gmt 0)

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The copyright issue mostly causes issue with AdSense if the copyright owner has asserted their claim in some way. The appearance of a (C) symbol won't automatically trigger an issue. The bigger gotcha is usually the policy point of adding value. For example a site that just had screenshots from a game might fall foul of policy whereas one that used the same screenshots as part of an original review / write-up might not.