diff --git a/COPYRIGHT b/COPYRIGHT
index a39d0efd3c30..4c44d6564457 100644
--- a/COPYRIGHT
+++ b/COPYRIGHT
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 Files: *
-Copyright: Copyright (C) 2008-2016 Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>
+Copyright: Copyright (C) 2008-2017 Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>
 License: GPL-3
  The full text of the GPL is distributed as in
  /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-3 on Debian systems.