diff --git a/misc-scripts/annual_copyright_updater.sh b/misc-scripts/annual_copyright_updater.sh
index 13a48770b803fe919387d561a60016819dc98ef5..b2281bdb1b2db490ad1abf64e644a86c7c1c0261 100755
--- a/misc-scripts/annual_copyright_updater.sh
+++ b/misc-scripts/annual_copyright_updater.sh
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ for var in $dirs; do
   last_year=$(($year - 1))
 
   search="^\(.*\)\\[1999-[0-9]*\\] Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and the EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute"
-  replacement="\1[1999-2015] Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and the EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute
+  replacement="\1[1999-2015] Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and the EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute"
   replacement="\1[2016] EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute\n\1[2016] EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute"
 
   echo "About to scan $(pwd) for files to replace '$search' with '$replacement'"