Standard Removal Procedure: Yahoo! Video Search crawls the Web for video files, and our crawlers comply with the Robots Exclusion Standard. In order to remove your videos 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. More information on the Robots Exclusion Standard.

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

User-agent: Yahoo-MMAudVid

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

Note that all user-uploaded videos will be included in the Yahoo! Video index unless they are deleted from the Yahoo! Video site.

Notices of Infringement:
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 click the Copyright/IP Policy link located at the bottom of any Yahoo! Video page and follow the reporting procedures described in Yahoo!'s Copyright/IP Policy.