The law that an American man was convicted of breaking exist to prevent the sale and export of endangered species products. Those laws are celebrated by some conservationists even as Inuit artists decry them as too restrictive.
Whatever price artists get from their initial sale is, currently, all the money they'll ever receive from their art though that could change if the federal government reforms Canada's copyright law to give artists a cut of resales.
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