File:Heerlen wapen.svg

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Description

English: Coat of arms of the Dutch municipality of Heerlen, Limburg.

Nederlands: Wapenschild van de Nederlands gemeente Heerlen, Limburg.

Limburgs: Woapesjild van de jemingde Heële, Nederlands Limburg.

Date

2010

Source

HRVA SVG is own work.

Author

User:Arch

Permission
(Reusing this file)

This image depicts a coat of arms of a (former) Dutch governmental jurisdiction, municipality, province, water board (Dutch: "Waterschap") or diocese. These coats of arms have been registered with the Hoge Raad van Adel [1], and are/were being used by the organisation to which the coat of arms was granted by Royal Decree (Dutch: Koninklijk Besluit). Every person is allowed to use the image of the arms, with some restrictions, see fragment below of the Ministerial Notice of 3 September 1979 (Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken) (Dutch).

Fragment from the memo: The depiction of a municipal coat of arms is allowed: the municipality holds no rights of creation of the coat of arms. There is also no objection against the use of a municipal coat of arms al for localising objects that are traded or that are being advertised, just as long it is ensured that no impression of municipal involvement or responsibility is created.

In view of Dutch legislation the use of the arms or reproductions thereof is regarded as being in the public domain. Everybody is allowed to make a drawing of the arms (on paper or electronically) in his/her own style based on the Royal Decree and claim it to be the arms of the municipality and uses it within the restrictions shown above. But there is copyright on each individual representation of the arms. This copyright lies with the artist that made that specific drawing based on the Royal Decree, not by the municipality.

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This coat of arms was drawn based on its blazon which – being a written description – is free from copyright. Any illustration conforming with the blazon of the arms is considered to be heraldically correct. Thus several different artistic interpretations of the same coat of arms can exist. Sometimes, the design officially used by the armiger is likely protected by copyright, in which case it cannot be used here.
Individual representations of a coat of arms, drawn from a blazon, may have a copyright belonging to the artist, but are not necessarily derivative works.

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File history

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	10:00, 13 March 2020	440 × 655 (365 KB)	D'Arch	improved shield
	12:57, 28 October 2017	209 × 328 (278 KB)	A. ter Hoek	improvements
	09:19, 2 June 2014	209 × 328 (312 KB)	Archmedus	improvements
	13:24, 14 April 2013	744 × 1,052 (426 KB)	Henk B.	improvementss
	04:39, 28 April 2011	744 × 1,052 (191 KB)	Arch	new crown, soften outlines
	03:12, 8 August 2010	744 × 1,052 (154 KB)	Arch	== Summary == {{Information \|Description = Coat of arms of the Dutch municipality of Heerlen, Limburg. \|Source = SVG is own work. \|Date = 2010 \|Author = Original by User:Arch \|Permission = {{PD-NL-gemeentewapen}} }} == Licensing == {{PD-self}} [[Cat