can i make money from this?

No idea - sorry

My answer ranges from yes to no. Seriously though you can give it a try, I mean look at PeopleofWalmart.com, that thing took off pretty good. Mix in the power of facebook and Pinterest, then you might have something there.

Yes, you can start the blog and get traffic from Pinterest. Just post your blog's pictures on Pinterest and put your blog's link at the description.

Yeah you can make the pictures go viral via social media traffic and have them lead back to your site, but there is a lot of competition.

You can monetize it with adsense and IQ test CPA offers and stomach fat loss ads, because people that look at those sites are into that stuff.

Social media like facebook, twitter, google plus etc can help you gaining traffic for your blog.

do you have the right to use the images for commercial purposes? Thats the first thing you need to figure out. Do you have licenses with those photos? what about model releases if there any people in the pictures?

Just having pictures on your cpu that you got off the internet certainly does not mean you can use for commercial purposes.

all photos are copyrighted from the moment they are created. since 1982 i think it was the law changed so that you don't have to register a copyright. when any original work is created, it gets a copyright by default. except in some pretty rare cases.

what you really need to find out is if you have a license to use that content for commercial purposes. I can guarantee that the images are copyrighted, they come that way by default...lol

Or you could go the route of YouTube/Pinterest and have users upload content "that they made". Certainly a gray area but technically legal as long as you're not doing the uploading.

I know for a fact that you can, but it would be quite a bit of work. I think primarily the pictures would be a draw of some sort, solely there to get you traffic. People are always interested in seeing very funny images. I'm sure as long as you put the proper disclaimers in place, you shouldn't get too much trouble.

It's a highly competitive market, but if you're willing to take it on- power be to you my friend.

adding disclaimers doesn't allow you to steal things including intellectual property.

If you are making money from other people's photographs (which is what you are thinking of doing) they can legitimately invoice you for their usage.

I have invoiced websites before for unauthorised use of my.photographs and the fact that they paid me rather than fought or ignored it suggests that they knew I was in the right.


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Try targeted a nice and very related keyword to what you want with those picture
there must be someone or many who search what we posting especially the "funny" thing
yeah, go find the very good keyword to it

I believe you will not have a problem if you go with blogspot, the worst scenario is the banning. If I were you, I would give it a try, I would monetize the blog through a PPC program and if it goes well, I would try to sell e-books with funny images or jokes.
Good Luck.

Just like many of us, my sites got hit this past couple of weeks. Not all of them, but sitting on 30+ sites that got hurt badly, I mean pushed way back.

I was afraid to build additional links, guessing that is the state of mind these days. I was afraid to build a single link to these sites.

My plan:

Funny Pictures, Quotes, Pics, Photos, Images. Videos of Really Very Cute animals.

I visit this site every once in a while and they don't produce any of the content that they host...at all.
Unless I'm mistaken, this is the same business model that Stean is trying to get into. Tell me how they've been able to do so?

I'm honestly asking by the way lol

Wow. Unfortunately this sounds like a lawsuit just waiting to happen

It has been my experience that people who "forward" funny stuff in emails don't pay one millionth of a second thinking about copyright and such, they just click "forward" on impulse as they are basking in their awe or laughter and want to pass it on.

To do something like this you would need to backtrack through every single email, contact the sender, and find out what the rights to the image are. This doesn't sound like a "business." It sounds like "busyness."

Good luck. Keep coming up with ideas, and you'll hit on some that'll work.

the reality is that a good percentage if not the majority of sites with pictures on them don't have the licenses to use the images.

there are a few things that go into how likely it is that you will be on the receiving end of a lawsuit.

1. if i take a funny picture of my dog and upload it. then others copy it and me and my dog become famous off of it. What is real likely hood i am going to file lawsuits against all those people who used my image without asking me. it really goes much deeper from legal standpoints, but on the surface you have to realize that many people who take images just don't really care how they are used.

2. now what if you take that picture and add some commentary or maybe put something controversial like a swastika in the picture with me... making a derivative work that makes fun of me. Now the likely hood of you receiving a lawsuit from me has gone up substantially.

3. if you take images that a stock photo site has in their inventory, the likely hood of getting a letter from a lawyer is actually pretty good.

as for others who use images like some of the examples mentioned in the thread. Does anyone know how many pending lawsuits those sites have against them? i doubt it.

Just because someone else is doing something doesn't make it legal. Those sites may be using Russian hosting for all i know.... i didn't take the time to check.

The reality is that if you make a habit of using images you don't have the right to use, then its not a matter of if you will attract unwanted legal attention, but WHEN.

you would begin seeing a little traffic from Google images.But you should also try to write unique content