Copyright Aid

If the College of Arms approved the arms, then you should vigourously defend your right to use them. Mottos (any text on the arms) are not protected by the heraldic laws, and do need trademark protection, but the arms are now yours, and only yours, forever. I am sure the heralds will be glad to ...

Probably it would be subject to copyright, but would need more information from you:
Is the author known?
Yes the author is known, but the copyright is owned by the publisher (it is a series of magazine articles).

I expect that copyright would apply in the UK, in fact, given the age of the work ...

Actually, there are some 'copyright patents' in the EU; if the idea really is new, then it might well be worth trying to patent it. A really shocking amount of stuff does get through.

This is not so much a copyright issue then as an armorial one. When the Her Majesty's College of Arms grants arms, they will write (on behalf of her Majesty) a letter patent beginning "To all and singular...". The design of the arms and scutcheon is protect by this patent (the letter patent, not ...

I am stuck on international copyright law for organisations.

Is a work
published in October 1931 in America,
never published in the UK,
with its copyright renewed in 1959, and
with copyright transferred to a (still existing) corporation (i.e. not owned by an individual) still under copyright it ...