Permission Requests

If you are seeking Permission to use any Yahoo! trademarks, logos, service marks, trade dress, slogans, screen shots, copyrighted designs, or other brand features (collectively "Brand Features"), then please review the Guidelines for use of Yahoo! Brand Features.

 

Once you have reviewed our Guidelines, please complete the form found at:  Request for Approval and submit it for review by a Permissions Agent at permissions@yahoo-inc.com.

If you have a concern with your account or need to reach customer care, please use the following link: http://pressroom.yahoo.net/pr/ycorp/contacts.aspx. Account and abuse issues will not be answered by permissions agents.

 

For examples of fair use that do not require explicit permission from Yahoo!, please see the information at: Fair Use

 

If you are seeking permission to use a photo/image found on Flickr^® or Yahoo! Images, please see the information found at: Photos/Images

 

If you would like to text link to Yahoo!, please see the information found at: Linking

 

If you have a question about domain names, please see the information found at: Domains

 

Please note that any material (content) that features trademarks, logos, or copyrighted material (content, including banners and buttons) from any third party may require that third party's and/or others' specific and additional permission. Yahoo! makes no representation or warranty as to your proposed use of any such material.

 

Your request will be processed once we receive your completed form. You will typically receive a response within ten business days. If your request is approved, that approval will be expressly subject to the above-referenced Guidelines as well as all additional terms set forth in Yahoo!'s Notification of Approval and License Agreement.

 

Please remember that the following restrictions apply in all instances:  You are not granted permission to use the Yahoo! logo(s) and the Yahoo! Brand Features will not be presented or used: a) in a manner that suggests that editorial content has been authored by, or represents the views or opinions of, Yahoo! or any Yahoo! personnel or affiliate; b) in a manner that is misleading, defamatory, libelous, obscene, infringing or otherwise objectionable; c) in connection with any material that infringes the trademark, copyright or any other rights of any third party; d) as part of a name of a product or service of a company other than Yahoo!; or e) in a manner that infringes, derogates, dilutes, or impairs the rights of Yahoo! in the Brand Features. Yahoo! shall have complete discretion to evaluate Licensee's use and to decide whether that use violates any of the foregoing restrictions.

 

 

Fair Use: If you would like to use a Yahoo! Screen Shot in a textbook you may do so, but please note that you may not modify the content or formats of the Screen Shots, except that you shall remove any content from third parties (e.g. advertising banners, news stories, stock quotes, maps) for which you have not obtained appropriate permission.  You may resize the Screen Shots to accommodate publication.

If the proposed Screen Shots are from Yahoo! Finance of financial information (stock charts, etc.), your use is contingent upon the third party provider’s prior approval, if necessary,  to use their content for Yahoo! Finance.

 

 

Film/TV/Commercial:  Please complete the form found at: http://pressroom.yahoo.net/pr/ycorp/raf-form.aspx. 

 

 

Linking:  You may use a text link to our site, but you may not import Yahoo! content to your site.

 

 

Domains:  Yahoo! does not approve the use of domain names that include Yahoo! or variants of Yahoo!.

 

Photos/Images:  Photos and/or images found on Yahoo! Images or Flickr are the property of the users that posted them.  Yahoo! cannot grant permission to use third party content.  Please contact the user directly.

 

If you are seeking permission to use the Flickr API, please see the information found at: http://www.flickr.com/services/api/keys/apply/

 

If you are seeking permission to use a photo/image found on Flickr, please note that you must contact the user who posted it directly and you must be a member of Flickr to do so.   Please move your mouse over the buddy icon and click the little arrow to activate the “person menu.”  From there, select “Send FLICKR Mail” to compose your message. Some members display their email address on their profile too so you might be able to contact them directly.

 

Content found at Yahoo! Contributor Network (Associated Content from Yahoo!):   If you would like to reprint an article found on Yahoo! Contributor Network, formerly Associated Content from Yahoo!, for any of the following purposes, please send your request to: permissions@yahoo-inc.com along with the link to the content you are requesting to use and an explanation of the purpose of use.