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This may be an incredibly ignorant question so go easy on me, but does publishing in a given journal give some form or Intellectual Property rights to the publisher? Is there some mandatory exclusivity rule?

That is, what's to stop someone from publishing in a "top" journal to bolster their career, then re-publishing the same thing in an open access journal?

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These publishers require that you transfer copyright to them. You're allowed to use your own work as part of your work, such as teaching, and sharing it with fellow researchers. But you're not allowed to upload the published version of the work elsewhere. Preprints are often allowed, such as on arxiv, are usually allowed.

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