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Correct: Raspberry Pi don't have the absolute right to prevent you from having websites with "raspberry-pi" in the domain name. If you treat this document as le
by dmurray 6y ago
Correct: Raspberry Pi don't have the absolute right to prevent you from having websites with "raspberry-pi" in the domain name. If you treat this document as legal advice from RPi, it was not written in good faith.
If you treat it as a licensing agreement or a contract instead, it would be plausible to include clauses like this. "You may do A, B and C, but you may not do D" = "by entering into this agreement you acquire the rights to do A, B and C in return for foregoing the right to do D". That would be perfectly fine.
I don't see anything in the document that grants you rights you didn't already have (to use RPi's IP only in accordance with fair use). Additionally, it describes itself as "guidelines" and never as a contract or an agreement. So, bad faith it is.
Here's a substantial review of the treatment of "gripe sites" in US law [0]. In general, the legal situation has been that if your site is non-commercial, then your use of the trademark, including in a domain name, is protected free speech.
[0] https://www.sgrlaw.com/ttl-articles/858/ https://www.sgrlaw.com/ttl-articles/858/