There's also a bestiary of obscure cousins and subspecies - trade dress, trade secrecy, service marks, noncompetes, nondisclosues, anticirumvention rights, sui generis "neighboring rights" and so on.
The job of an "IP lawyer" is to pluck individual doctrines from this incoherent scrapheap of laws and regulations and weave them together into a spider's web of tripwires.
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Customers and critics and competitors can't avoid those tripwires, and which confer upon the lawyer's client the right to sue for anything that displeases them.
When Willingham says he's releasing *Fables* into the public domain, it's not clear what he's releasing - and what is his to release. In the colloquial, business sense of "IP," saying you're "releasing the IP" means something like, "Feel free to create adaptations from this."
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