diff --git a/COPYING b/COPYING
index fbeaa215..f9126073 100644
--- a/COPYING
+++ b/COPYING
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ The MIT License (MIT)
 
 Copyright (c) 2009-2012 The Bitcoin developers
 Copyright (c) 2011-2014 The Peercoin Developers
-Copyright (c) 2014-2015 The Paycoin Developers
+Copyright (c) 2014-2016 The Paycoin Developers
 
 Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
 of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
diff --git a/src/qt/forms/aboutdialog.ui b/src/qt/forms/aboutdialog.ui
index 0a88d3fc..337e0c2d 100644
--- a/src/qt/forms/aboutdialog.ui
+++ b/src/qt/forms/aboutdialog.ui
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@
        <property name="text">
         <string>Copyright © 2009-2012 Bitcoin Developers
 Copyright © 2011-2014 Peercoin Developers
-Copyright © 2014-2015 Paycoin Developers</string>
+Copyright © 2014-2016 Paycoin Developers</string>
        </property>
        <property name="textInteractionFlags">
         <set>Qt::LinksAccessibleByMouse|Qt::TextSelectableByKeyboard|Qt::TextSelectableByMouse</set>
diff --git a/src/qt/res/bitcoin-qt.rc b/src/qt/res/bitcoin-qt.rc
index 29fe4a4b..637870f5 100644
--- a/src/qt/res/bitcoin-qt.rc
+++ b/src/qt/res/bitcoin-qt.rc
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ BEGIN
             VALUE "CompanyName",        "Paycoin"
             VALUE "FileDescription",    "Paycoin-Qt (OSS GUI client for Paycoin)"
             VALUE "InternalName",       "paycoin-qt"
-            VALUE "LegalCopyright",     "2014-2015 The Paycoin developers"
+            VALUE "LegalCopyright",     "2014-2016 The Paycoin developers"
             VALUE "LegalTrademarks1",   "Distributed under the MIT software license, see the accompanying file COPYING or http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php."
             VALUE "OriginalFilename",   "paycoin-qt.exe"
             VALUE "ProductName",        "Paycoin-Qt"
diff --git a/src/qt/splashscreen.cpp b/src/qt/splashscreen.cpp
index 371d7e5e..5e2e10a9 100644
--- a/src/qt/splashscreen.cpp
+++ b/src/qt/splashscreen.cpp
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ SplashScreen::SplashScreen(const QPixmap &pixmap, Qt::WindowFlags f) :
     // define text to place
     QString titleText       = QString(QApplication::applicationName()).replace(QString("-testnet"), QString(""), Qt::CaseSensitive); // cut of testnet, place it as single object further down
     QString versionText     = QString("Version %1").arg(QString::fromStdString(FormatFullVersion()));
-    QString copyrightText   = QChar(0xA9)+QString(" 2014-2015 ") + QString(tr("The Paycoin developers"));
+    QString copyrightText   = QChar(0xA9)+QString(" 2014-2016 ") + QString(tr("The Paycoin developers"));
     QString testnetAddText  = QString(tr("[testnet]")); // define text to place as single text object
 
     QString font            = "Arial";