Earn Extra Cash with Your Journal!

[theljstaff]

As many of you may have alraedy seen, LiveJournal announced the Your Journal - Your Money feature today in news. This feature allows you to link your Paid or Permanent LiveJournal account to a Google AdSense account to display ads on your journal. You keep all of the proceeds from the display of these ads once Google takes their cut; LiveJournal does

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[ladynadiad]

Then in that case wouldn't you just not opt in on those journals? Same probably with fandom RP journals that happen to be paid since those easily can fall into the same idea. Better safe than sorry there.

[astronewt]

We can't really advise you on legal liability issues -- you may want to address this type of question to the AdSense support team, or look in their support forum for this topic.

[neurofern]

seconded, I receive monthly payments from them and have never had an issue.

[glenniebun]

How does this impact LJs that are have avatars with pop-culture sources? If they opt in, wouldn't they essentially be making money off of a product that is under copyright and thus be in (further) violation of copyright laws?

[unhipster]

If you sign up for this, and the later decide you don't want to do it anymore, you can just opt out again, right?

[gerg]

Yes.

[eveshka]

With you on this.

[nursemette]

My thoughts exactly!

[kent]

Actually, it seems pretty well thought out and is opt-in--so you won't see ads as a paid member (unless, perhaps, you opt in to seeing other people's ads), other paid members won't see the ads on your journal, etc. I'm not sure where the failure is. Sure, it isn't for you, but you don't have to notice that it exists.