diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
index 33246c1583..893c72cbce 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -263,9 +263,9 @@ The project leader is the release manager for each Litecoin Core release.
 
 Copyright
 ---------
-Copyright 2017 The Litecoin Core Developers
+Copyright 2018 The Litecoin Core Developers
 
-- bitcoin: Copyright (c) 2009-2017 Bitcoin Core Developers (MIT License)
+- bitcoin: Copyright (c) 2009-2018 Bitcoin Core Developers (MIT License)
 
 By contributing to this repository, you agree to license your work under the 
 MIT license unless specified otherwise in `contrib/debian/copyright` or at 
diff --git a/COPYING b/COPYING
index 45d51c3c78..9700e9e16d 100644
--- a/COPYING
+++ b/COPYING
@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
 The MIT License (MIT)
 
-Copyright (c) 2009-2017 The Bitcoin Core developers
-Copyright (c) 2009-2017 Bitcoin Developers
+Copyright (c) 2009-2018 The Bitcoin Core developers
+Copyright (c) 2009-2018 Bitcoin Developers
+Copyright (c) 2011-2018 The Litecoin Core 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/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index c2250e4261..fbc820bddb 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ define(_CLIENT_VERSION_MINOR, 15)
 define(_CLIENT_VERSION_REVISION, 1)
 define(_CLIENT_VERSION_BUILD, 0)
 define(_CLIENT_VERSION_IS_RELEASE, true)
-define(_COPYRIGHT_YEAR, 2017)
+define(_COPYRIGHT_YEAR, 2018)
 define(_COPYRIGHT_HOLDERS,[The %s developers])
 define(_COPYRIGHT_HOLDERS_SUBSTITUTION,[[Litecoin Core]])
 AC_INIT([Litecoin Core],[_CLIENT_VERSION_MAJOR._CLIENT_VERSION_MINOR._CLIENT_VERSION_REVISION],[https://github.com/litecoin-project/litecoin/issues],[litecoin],[https://litecoin.org/])
diff --git a/contrib/debian/copyright b/contrib/debian/copyright
index 72d64ce62d..418454fb48 100644
--- a/contrib/debian/copyright
+++ b/contrib/debian/copyright
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ Upstream-Contact: Satoshi Nakamoto <satoshin@gmx.com>
 Source: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin
 
 Files: *
-Copyright: 2009-2017, Bitcoin Core Developers
+Copyright: 2009-2018, Bitcoin Core Developers
 License: Expat
 Comment: The Bitcoin Core Developers encompasses the current developers listed on bitcoin.org,
          as well as the numerous contributors to the project.