Copyright and Intellectual Property

Respect Intellectual Property Rights

Yahoo! respects the intellectual property of authors and creators and we ask our users to do the same. Yahoo! may in accordance with its Terms of Service and in appropriate circumstances and at its discretion, disable and/or terminate without notice the accounts of users who may be infringing the intellectual property rights of others.

Infringement of Your Intellectual Property Rights

If you believe that your work has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, or your intellectual property rights have been otherwise violated, please complete the online form (live online form here by providing all the requested information. The form can be submitted to Yahoo! Copyright/IP agent via email, fax and post.

By email: Copyright and Intellectual Property Infringement Complaint Form
By fax: + 44 (0) 207 131 1015
By mail:Legal Department, Copyright/IP agent, Yahoo!, 125 Shaftesbury Avenue, London WC2H 8AD, United Kingdom

Permission Requests

If you are seeking permission to use any Yahoo! South Africa trademarks, logos, screen shots, copyrighted designs, or other brand features from the Yahoo! South Africa websites (http://za.yahoo.com), please provide the following information to allow us to review your request:

1. registered company name of the organization and/or person requesting permission;
2. registered company office address and other contact information (e-mail, phone, fax);
3. country where the company is registered;
4. company registration number;
5. name of the book, website or other media where Yahoo! material will appear;
6. exact Yahoo! logos or other Yahoo! materials to be used;
7. mock-up of the book or website in which the Yahoo! materials will appear.

Please send this information to us by email: permissions-requests@yahoo-inc.com. If your request is approved, that approval will be subject to the terms of the Product Placement Agreement which you will have to sign prior to your use of Yahoo! materials.

We may only grant permission for the use of Yahoo! South Africa specific material such as Yahoo! South Africa logos or the Yahoo! South Africa front page (http://za.yahoo.com) and other Yahoo! South Africa specific websites. Yahoo! Inc. in the US owns the right to Yahoo! US material (http://www.yahoo.com) and; therefore, permission to use Yahoo! US materials must be obtained directly from Yahoo! US. Information on Yahoo! US permissions can be found at http://pressroom.yahoo.net/pr/ycorp/permissions.aspx.

Many Yahoo! websites incorporate third party content. Yahoo! is unable to grant permission for you to use third party content. Typical examples include Reuters or Associated Press articles and pictures appearing in Yahoo! News or Yahoo! Sports. Please contact the appropriate third party for permission to use their content.