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MDPE.7:5.5 - Cultural continuation is a different question, not invented project authority

A group of organizers observes that a social-dance variant appears less often at their event and considers declaring it lost or launching a restoration programme. Their event trace does not establish population-level loss, and their organizational authority may not extend beyond the event.

The lawful local result can identify MDPE.19 for a qualified account of the supported continuation and its limits, including a decision to continue only the current event or retire that local arrangement. A representative continuation test, probe again with a receiving-enactment observation, or a local event experiment is a separate choice when the Work is obtainable and its contribution warrants the full burden under the organizers’ actual authority. The result cannot be “the community will restore the style” unless a named chooser, authority, Work, population and later cultural relations support that claim.