For those of you who are not aware, Fables was fairly popular series published by DC Comics about fairy tale creatures living in modern America. It led to several spin-off series and video game, The Wolf Among Us.

Legally per the terms of his contract with DC, Willingham retained full rights to the Fables story and characters as his intellectual property. DC kept going behind his back with releases and stories, and Willingham lacked the resources to mount a full-scale legal battle.

Thus, because he has the right to give ownership of Fables to whoever he chooses, and because of his own philosophy on the copyright system, Willingham released his work into the public domain. Now anyone can create works with those characters and stories; DC no longer has a monopoly.

What an absolute Chad.

It's hillarious. DC was being an ass.

The author is contractually-obligated to only publish anything Fables-related through DC and DC alone.

But he can release Fables into the public domain.

And nobody but the author is forced to go through DC to publish Fables content now in the public domain.

In other words : ''lol fuck you DC''.

This is the way.

Authors need to either have their IP go into the public domain when they pass on or join together and form an organization that protects their creative content when they're gone.

I'm not sure how you'd set up an organization that can't be infiltrated and subverted so releasing it so that anyone can create derived works is probably the best "fuck you" to the woke crowd and the companies that bend the knee to them.

This is a 4D Chess move. Brilliant.

Since it is in the Public Domain (and also FUCK DC):

https://getcomics.org/dc/fables-ultimate-collection/

The read online and the WeTransfer links are live.