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After 60 years, Inuit-led organization takes over Inuit art trademark from feds by Sara Frizzell
CBC News | July 2017
In the late 1940s and early 1950s when Inuit art was introduced to southern Canada's art scene, the federal government established a trademark to protect artists' work from copycats. That trademark, called the igloo tag, has now been transferred from the Department of Indigenous and Northern Affairs to the nationally-mandated Inuit Art Foundation to manage.