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Perhaps I should clarify the intrinsic relationship statement:
There exists an intrinsic relationship between builder and owner when the builder creates an area, or areas, on a MUD which has a unique theme or setting. The builder is using the medium of the owner and the owner's storyline or concept to create a zone, area, or room which fits within the theme.
The builder certainly created the work, but the work would not and could not exist without both the medium to create (the MUD itself) and the concept behind the area. Note that this is a specific situation wherein the two are dependent upon one another - the area and the theme of the MUD itself potentiate one another; although each is capable of existing independently, the sum of the whole is greater than any of the parts. Complements, if you will.
To illustrate via analogy: Robert Lynn Aspirin's Thieves World Series' are written by numerous authors. Each is an independent work of their respective author, yet cannot exist without the world as a whole. The author could not, for example, take the work published in a Thieves World Anthology and rerelease it as a seperate work without giving credit, and having permission from, Aspirin. By the same token, that author can not demand omission from future printings or anthologies, because he or she contributed the work with the understanding that it would become a part of the whole collection, unless it was stipulated in the original contract otherwise.
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