If you lend someone a chair, you temporarily lose its use. If you show them a design, you can both retain the information. Creating that design may take months even when making another copy takes seconds. Intellectual property organizes rights around this difference.
The family includes several distinct arrangements. Patents concern qualifying inventions; copyright concerns original expression; trade secrets concern valuable confidential information. Trademarks serve another purpose: distinguishing the source of goods or services. These are not interchangeable ways of owning every idea.
Permission and payment are separate choices
Imagine a designer publishing an illustrated manual for a new repair device. Rights in the text and drawings do not automatically provide rights over the device’s working principle. Someone seeking to reproduce the manual and someone seeking to manufacture a device are asking different questions.
Rights can create bargaining power, but they do not supply customers or finance development by themselves. Open licensing uses rights to grant permissions in advance; grants can pay for work without depending on later permission fees. Public access and compensation depend on how these arrangements are combined.
The interesting design choices concern what is protected, for how long, with which exceptions, and who can enforce the rights. Expanding control may make one investment easier to recover while making later learning and invention more expensive. The label alone does not settle that balance.