diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE
index 97a642728b..9c0f570564 100644
--- a/LICENSE
+++ b/LICENSE
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-Copyright (c) 2013-2016 Ghost Foundation
+Copyright (c) 2013-2017 Ghost Foundation
 
 Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person
 obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 3d8e631a74..794264d018 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -104,4 +104,4 @@ New releases are announced on the [dev blog](http://dev.ghost.org/tag/releases/)
 
 # Copyright & License
 
-Copyright (c) 2013-2016 Ghost Foundation - Released under the [MIT license](LICENSE).
+Copyright (c) 2013-2017 Ghost Foundation - Released under the [MIT license](LICENSE).