Hello first of all,I'm glad I've become a part of this community as there are many useful informations here,but to the business,I have a question. Right now I'm going to build a website,I have several ideas and one of them is a game review site,so the question is,can I apply adsense on the site,which includes gaming screenshots-reviews?I want to review games like Mass effect or Bioshock or anything else,is this a fair use?Can I add adsense to this kind of site? Will google ban me for using game screenshots?Or is it fair use? Any help will be appreciated.
well, for one thing -- every single youtube gaming video features in-game clips. so does every site. It's doubtful you'd get in trouble. It's actually advertising the video game, which is why it's not illegal.
Reviews are very likely considered "fair use". This is a good article on the topic: http://fairusetube.org/guide-to-youtube-removals/3-deciding-if-video-is-fair-use
Yes,I think that it's fair use too and adsense should not have problems with game screenshots with a review text,but still I am not sure.Plus I'm not going to review bad games,moslty good ones and going to talk about their good sides so,as jv1999 said,it's really more like advertising of a game.
Sure you can, don't even bother about AdSense, they are good, they usually ban people without any reason.. So be prepared..