I remember Adsense launching a feature that allowed a web community owner to share revenue with the people on the site who are generating content.

Does anyone remember that program? Please share a link to it.

This is interesting. I've never heard of this and it doesn't sound very much like Google to me but does this ring a bell to anyone else?

It's called AdSense API, you have to meet some requirements though.

"... AdSense API implementations only for websites where content using AdSense through the API is expected to get at least one hundred thousand (100,000) page views per day. ..."

http://code.google.com/apis/adsense/

Of course, it's not necessary.