News Digest for July 12, 2022

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Indigenous artists are calling on the federal government to stop a flood of international fakes and knock-offs that exploit their culture and hurt them financially. A Canadian Press story quotes B.C. carver Richard Hunt as saying his images have been reproduced without permission. "In Bali, Indonesia, they are making Northwest Coast masks," Hunt said. "They are selling them as Indigenous." Senator Pat Bovey, the first art historian to sit in the Senate, is lobbying the government to reform copyright law to protect Indigenous artists. She says the industry of fake reproductions may be worth millions of dollars.