diff --git a/misc-scripts/annual_copyright_updater.sh b/misc-scripts/annual_copyright_updater.sh
index 810867f5513e2ac59113f77069f967cb35072b9b..6f6cb0f7ca7c487d57265ef5c3b2e96b201b40f2 100755
--- a/misc-scripts/annual_copyright_updater.sh
+++ b/misc-scripts/annual_copyright_updater.sh
@@ -33,8 +33,8 @@ for var in $dirs; do
   year=$(date "+%Y")
   last_year=$(($year - 1))
 
-  search="\\[1999-${last_year}\\] Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and the EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute"
-  replacement="\\[1999-${year}\\] Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and the EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute"
+  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"
 
   echo "About to scan $(pwd) for files to replace '$search' with '$replacement'"
 
@@ -48,4 +48,4 @@ for var in $dirs; do
   done
 
   cd $original_wd
-done
\ No newline at end of file
+done