AdSense and Copied Contents

Monday June 19th 2006, 4:31 am
Filed under: Adsense Cheats & Frauds, Original Article

It sure seems like easy money nowadays. You register for a free account at blogger, copy good contents from other sites, put in AdSense code, and there you go earning money from other people’s content.

Are you doing that? Proud of that? Let me tell you something. Your days are numbered. I mean your AdSense days. Your AdSense account might be terminated any time. But probably that’s beside the point. Even if you don’t care about your account (which you should, because you can’t reapply again after terminated), there are other things you need to consider.

First, it’s just wrong. You are stealing from other webmasters. By having the content on your site, you are using their content to compete with themselves. How will you feel if you are the one in the situation?

From legal point of view, you can be sued for copyright infringement. In US there is Digital Millennium Copyright Act that protects copyright owners. While many see it as an infringement to freedom, it has really been helpful for honest webmaster for protecting their content. For more information on this Act, visit the U.S. Copyright Office Web Site.

In compliance with the DMCA, Google has stated their policy, that is to respond to notices and take action accordingly, including termination of AdSense account.

From AdSense Help Center

It is our policy to respond to notices of alleged infringement that comply with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). For AdSense publishers, if we receive a notice or otherwise have reason to believe that your site is infringing, we may terminate your participation in the program.

If you are a publisher and your contents are copied without your permission, you can notice AdSense by following the procedure at http://www.google.com/adsense_dmca.html.

There are a number of threads on Webmaster World forum regarding this topic (require registration)
http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum89/11998.htm
http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum89/2683.htm

*I am not talking about the big-scale MFA scraper sites here. These are small sites, done by newbie webmasters.

Related entries:

6 Comments so far
Leave a comment

AdSense and Copied Contents…

Trackback from GoogleKicks.com…

Trackback by GoogleKicks.com 06.19.06 @ 4:36 am

You’re breaking Google Adsense TOS with 4 sets of ads on 1 page!
Maybe your adsense account will be terminated.

Comment by Bob 06.19.06 @ 5:15 pm

Hi Bob, can you let me know which page has 4 sets of ads?

If you are referring to the ads on top (just below site name), that is ad links. AdSense publishers are allowed to have one ad-links in addition of three ads units.

Comment by Fernando Hal 06.19.06 @ 9:08 pm

Your text starts down where About Author on sidebar ends. Is there some thing wrong or it is my computer.

I am linking this site in “Intro to Google AdSense” part of my blog. Hope to learn more here.

Comment by shirazi 06.20.06 @ 7:31 am

Hi, Shirazi.

Are using Internet Explorer? I just notice that the layout does not display corretly in IE. Thanks for letting me know.

For time being, you can consider using Firefox. It is much better that IE in many ways.

Comment by fernando hal 06.20.06 @ 10:37 am

ah but will Google terminate the account? If they do, they will lose money.

I have complained about sites that I believe to be clear violations of numerous Adsense terms and conditions and received an email back from Google saying, thanks we’ll look into that, but the sites in question are still running adsense ads.

How d’you think Google managed to double their profits? It’s all a big link-click scam.

Comment by anon 10.23.06 @ 9:55 pm

RSS feed for comments on this post. TrackBack URI

Leave a comment
Line and paragraph breaks automatic, e-mail address never displayed, HTML allowed: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <code> <em> <i> <strike> <strong>