Yahzooshopping.com is committed to protecting the intellectual property rights of third parties and to providing its users with a safe place to trade. Infringement is the unauthorised use of other people’s intellectual property – like copyrighted material and trademarks.

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Rules that affect what you can sell on yahzooshopping.com

The following items are restricted or prohibited because they would potentially infringe on intellectual property rights.

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Replica, Counterfeit Items and Unauthorised Copies

Counterfeits, unauthorised replicas, unauthorised items (such as counterfeit DVD’s, watches, handbags, or other accessories) or unauthorised copies (such as copies of software programs, video games, music albums, movies, television programs, or photographs) are not permitted on Yahzoo. Unauthorised copies include (but are not limited to) copies that are pirated, duplicated, backed-up or bootlegged. It is illegal to sell unauthorised copies of media.

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Guideline: If the product you are selling bears the name or logo of a company, but it wasn't made or endorsed by that company, don't list it on Yahzoo.

Violations of this policy may result in a range of actions, including:

• Listing cancellation

• Limits on account privileges

• Account suspension

• Forfeit of Yahzoo fees on cancelled listings

• Loss of sellers status

• Celebrity material including Faces, names and signatures, and autographs

• Media - movie prints (35 mm, 70 mm), bootleg recordings, recordable media, promotional copies and digitally delivered goods

• Software including academic software, beta software, OEM software

• Equipment that would support unauthorised copies including mod chips, game enhancers, and boot discs; and hardware or software that would enable members to duplicate copy-protected material

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Rules that affect how you list items for sale

In an item listing yahzooshopping.com members cannot:

• Encourage or enable others to infringe copyright, trademarks or other rights.

• Improperly use yahzooshopping.com Intellectual Property (including use of the yahzooshopping.com name, logo or linking to the yahzooshopping.com website).

• Include authenticity disclaimers or deny responsibility for the items offered in their listings.

• Use another member’s item description or picture without their permission. (To contact yahzooshopping.com about another member who is using your text or images without your permission, go to the Item Description and Picture Theft Policy page and use the 'Report' link.)

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Yahzooshopping.com Intell program

Yahzooshopping.com created the Intellectual property rights (IPR) program so that intellectual property owners could easily report listings that infringe their rights. It is in yahzooshopping.com interest to ensure that infringing items are removed from the site, as they erode buyer and good seller trust.

If you are an Intellectual property rights owner and want to report a listing issue, see Reporting Intellectual Property Infringements.

Note: Only the intellectual property rights owner can report potentially infringing items or listings through yahzooshopping.com Intell program. If you are not the intellectual property rights owner, you can still help by getting in touch with the rights owner and encouraging them to contact us. For a list of rights owners who participate in yahzooshopping.com Intell program, view the list of About Me pages.

If your listing was removed through Intell, and you believe it was removed in error, contact us to rectify the matter.

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