Standard Removal Procedure:
Yahoo! Image Search crawls the Web for image files, and our crawlers comply with the Robots Exclusion Standard. In order to have your images removed from our index we require that you create a robots.txt file using the Robots Exclusion Protocol to indicate which files you want excluded.

In order to use a robots.txt file, you or your webmaster need to have access to your web site's hosting server. See Robots Exclusion Standard

You must stipulate the following user-agent in your robots.txt file to disallow Yahoo!'s image crawler from accessing your specific directories or image files:

User-agent: Yahoo-MMCrawler

When you have placed this file at the root level of your hosting server, Yahoo!'s image crawlers no longer access those files or directories you have stipulated. Please note, however, that it can take several weeks before your block takes effect in our index depending upon when you first implement your robots.txt file.

Immediate Removal for Legal Cause:
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 provide Yahoo!'s Copyright Agent the following information:

1. An electronic or physical signature of the person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright or other intellectual property interest.
2. A description of the copyrighted work or other intellectual property that you claim has been infringed.
3. A description of where the infringing material is located on the Yahoo! site including search keyword details.
4. Your address, telephone number, and email address.
5. A statement by you that you have a good faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized by the copyright or intellectual property owner, its agent, or the law.
6. A statement by you, made under penalty of perjury, that the above information in your Notice is accurate and that you are the copyright or intellectual property owner or authorized to act on the copyright or intellectual property owner's behalf.

Yahoo!'s Agent for Notice of claims of copyright or other intellectual property infringement can be reached as follows:

By mail:
Copyright Agent
c/o Yahoo! Inc.
701 First Avenue
Sunnyvale, CA 94089

By phone: (408) 349-5080

By fax: (408) 349-7821

By email: copyright@yahoo-inc.com

Please note that, due to security concerns, email attachments cannot be accepted. Accordingly, any notification of infringement submitted electronically with an attachment is not received or processed.

In addition to submitting your legal request for immediate removal, we also require that you follow our Standard Removal Procedure and employ a robots.txt file to ensure that your files are not accessed by our crawlers in the future.