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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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Cory Doctorow 2y ago

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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Cory Doctorow 2y ago

But these adaptations probably can't draw too closely on the artwork, or the logos. You can probably make novelizations of the comics. Maybe you can make new comics that use the same scripts but different art. You can probably make sequels to, or spinoffs of, the existing comics, provided you come up with your own character designs.

But it's murky. Very murky.

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