AdSense can’t be placed on auto-generated sites with copied content.

The latest “AdSense Facts & Fiction” from the Google AdSense Blog addresses an issue that may affect domainers-turned-mass web site developers:

      Fiction: Publishers can put ads on auto-generated pages or other copied content that was not created by them.

      Fact: We don’t allow sites with auto-generated or otherwise unoriginal content to participate in the AdSense program. This is to ensure that our users are benefiting from a unique online experience and that our advertisers are partnering with useful and relevant sites.

As you read the rest of the post it’s not clear if this applies to sites that republish syndicated content. The post continues:

      Sometimes we come across sites that are using software to generate automated content. These sites might look like normal news sites, but the information is completely plagiarized. Scraping content and passing it off as one’s own is not only wrong, but it also happens to be a serious violation of our policies

      There’s a good amount of content that can be copied and republished per the author’s guidelines. So it seems that this directive if mostly pointed to splogs, such as the many “blogs” that copy content from Domain Name Wire and republish it in its entirety.

Source from Domain Name Wire