Lets say you put up a mini site, and you take 5 articles from Ezine articles.com. You follow all of the publishing guidelines on ezine in terms of giving credit, linking back, maintaining the authors signature link etc. Is this allowed by adsense?
No, unless the author of the work gives your consent, then your arent allowed to post other's materials. Check out Google's TOS.
If you put your articles on Ezine then you are giving permission for them to be used as long as you give credit the way that Ezine says to....