diff --git a/misc-scripts/annual_copyright_updater.sh b/misc-scripts/annual_copyright_updater.sh
index 6f6cb0f7ca7c487d57265ef5c3b2e96b201b40f2..ca6e52079db1a24b59d0f7527bb787cbc5c76a62 100755
--- a/misc-scripts/annual_copyright_updater.sh
+++ b/misc-scripts/annual_copyright_updater.sh
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ for var in $dirs; do
   last_year=$(($year - 1))
 
   search="\\[1999-[0-9]*\\] Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and the EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute"
-  replacement="[1999-2014] Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and the EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute\nCopyright [2015-2016] EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute"
+  replacement="[1999-2015] Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and the EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute\nCopyright [2016] EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute"
 
   echo "About to scan $(pwd) for files to replace '$search' with '$replacement'"