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I couldn't find an answer to this question in the WW archives. I was looking down the Google Policies and generally they talk about sites, but I saw this:
"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."
1. I am not sure how podcast sites would fair under these Policies.
2. what I was curious about the usage of the term 'web pages'. To me, this means a specific page, but not a site/domain. So playing devil's advocate, you could have an MP3 site, but as long the adsense ads were not on the same page as the MP3s (eg put the ad on a home page), it would be OK.
3. There doesn't seem to be a distinction between illegal material and legit stuff. You could be in a band or a performance artist, but you wouldn't be able to have AS on these pages with links to video or MP3 files? Some owners in this group have travel sites, so if the page included a video of a destination, then AS ads couldn’t be displayed?
4. Just to be a little more pedantic - what about ACC or Obb vorbis audio files? MP3 is not OK, but these are? Seems a little odd.
Also, they do revise the TOS from time to time, so maybe your request for info will lead to clearer language in the next TOS update.
If your MM files are original, then it's your content.
I run an Indie Music and Film company so I sure hope they aren't trying to keep my original content pages with our own MP3's and WMV files out.
Read the TOS again
"website publishers may not display Google ads on web pages with MP3, Video, News Groups, and Image RESULTS"
So an MM creator/publisher isn't mentioned, it's a web publisher that displays RESULTS like a pull site where you put in a key word and all the MM files for that term come up, it's a RESULTS page they are talking about IMHO.
At least that's how I read it.
