Google has recently prohibited the use of copyrighted content to be monetized with Adsense. I have a few sites where I have used free articles from ezines but have put the name of the writer beneath the article title on each page and also didn't place any Ads on those pages. The question is... Will Google have any objection? (but remember I'm not monetizing them with Adsense and I'm using the author name beneath the article titles)
Hello, The best if you contact to Google Team, here you will received yes, you can, no you cannot, but for a sure answer contact to Google Adsense team. Best
Fug that. Don't go and tell google you are using someone elses content. you will be playing right into their hands and get taken out of the SERPs right away, whether you are allowed to monetize or not. Stick to their basic guidelines, i.e. no illegal or adult material on your adsense pages etc. Anything else should be considered a grey area and you will get WARNED BEFORE you are BANNED if you are deemed to be outside of their guidelines. I have seen it lots of times and had it happen myself, one of my domains had some crappy spammy content on and instead of banning my account that is spread across about 50 crap to decent domains they warned me about this one domain, i took the ads off and everyone is happy now. Don;t forget they make money from ads being on your site, they dont want to ban people willy nilly if they can get away with a warning.
The guidelines don't say that you can't use copyrighted content - any content you created yourself would be copyrighted too, so that is nonsensical. This is what the program policies actually say: https://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/answer.py?answer=48182&topic=8423 If you are republishing ezine articles with permission, that means you have the necessary legal rights to display that content, so you are fine. Just be sure you are following the ezine terms - like including the author's name and links.
The burden of proof is on the person who finds content they believe you took illegally to pursue a complaint with Google and PROVE what you are doing violates their content. That's only fair. And it's about time. But the reality is their change in TOS won't make much difference to legit publishers.
If you don't want to contact google for direct answer, you can alwasy use the forum on google adsense stuffs and see what they have to say. Ezines articles are free for use as long as you follow their TOS and that would include the author box and the links, if strip them tehn your in trouble. JulieV
If you are not using adsense on those pages which are having copyrighted content from ezine, then you must care for ezine terms.