diff --git a/COPYING b/COPYING
index 5826391abf..30727c6ed1 100644
--- a/COPYING
+++ b/COPYING
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-Copyright (c) 2009-2015 Bitcoin Developers
-Copyright (c) 2014-2015 Dash Developers
+Copyright (c) 2009-2016 Bitcoin Developers
+Copyright (c) 2014-2016 Dash Developers
 
 Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
 of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 34eaff7a05..018e1ef52c 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ define(_CLIENT_VERSION_MINOR, 12)
 define(_CLIENT_VERSION_REVISION, 0)
 define(_CLIENT_VERSION_BUILD, 57)
 define(_CLIENT_VERSION_IS_RELEASE, true)
-define(_COPYRIGHT_YEAR, 2015)
+define(_COPYRIGHT_YEAR, 2016)
 AC_INIT([Dash Core],[_CLIENT_VERSION_MAJOR._CLIENT_VERSION_MINOR._CLIENT_VERSION_REVISION],[info@dashpay.io],[dash])
 AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([src/main.cpp])
 AC_CONFIG_HEADERS([src/config/dash-config.h])