14. Why is it important to have your Coat of Arms registered?:
- Registration and recording of your Arms is important for a few reasons. First and foremost registration serves as a tool to record your personal Arms for posterity. If in the future you wish to change your Arms or pass them on to your descendents you can come to us for help and advice. If your family conducts any research in the future and would like to know about your Coat of Arms, we can also help them in their study. As our registry grows larger modernheraldry.com will issue a printed copy of the roll to all of its clients as a written record, further documenting the collection...
- Keep in mind that registration is a free service with your commission of a Coat of Arms. All of the Arms are copyright protected as original works of art and graphics and you control how you want to use it later in life. Unlawful reproduction and web duplication is probably unlikely because who wants to steal someone else's personal symbol. You can always return to this site for help with your copyright questions...
- Finally if you travel to a country where heraldry is regulated and want to display your Arms you may have that country's regulatory agency contact us if they have any questions about your design...