I know that this question has been asked many times before and I know that I’m allowed to post quotes as long as I cite the source and a few other details. However what if I put advertising on a page containing quotes. Is that legal under the fair use policy? I basically want to monetize pages containing quotes.
Once you monetize the page it becomes commercial. Commercial use does not fall under fair-use. Ads were the basis for Viacom suing YouTube even though YouTube met the DMCA requirements. Viacom said that by placing ads next to infringing material, they were profitting from it even if YouTube didn't know the infringing material was there. By the same token, ads can take something out of the realm of fair-use and into copyright infringement. That's the legal side of it. Of course that only comes into play if somebody sues you. Will they? Probably not, but possibly.
Thanks for the great reply. One of the oldest quotes sites contains ads and they seem to have had no problems. What if my quotes site contained blog posts without quotes, could I monetize them even though the posts contained links to quotes?
IANAL & IMHO it depends what you mean by a "quote". If you quote a sentence or short paragraph it shouldn't be a problem.....but if you "quote" an entire article then it's not fair use.
You can monitize and still be covered under fair use. Like a reviewer can use small clippings and covered under fair use.