diff --git a/COPYING b/COPYING
index 14806a6829..ab9d22f42b 100644
--- a/COPYING
+++ b/COPYING
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 The MIT License (MIT)
 
-Copyright (c) 2009-2020 The Bitcoin Core developers
-Copyright (c) 2009-2020 Bitcoin Developers
-Copyright (c) 2011-2020 The Litecoin Core developers
+Copyright (c) 2009-2021 The Bitcoin Core developers
+Copyright (c) 2009-2021 Bitcoin Developers
+Copyright (c) 2011-2021 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 8050840a3e..169202a039 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ define(_CLIENT_VERSION_REVISION, 1)
 define(_CLIENT_VERSION_BUILD, 0)
 define(_CLIENT_VERSION_RC, 0)
 define(_CLIENT_VERSION_IS_RELEASE, true)
-define(_COPYRIGHT_YEAR, 2020)
+define(_COPYRIGHT_YEAR, 2021)
 define(_COPYRIGHT_HOLDERS,[The %s developers])
 define(_COPYRIGHT_HOLDERS_SUBSTITUTION,[[Litecoin Core]])
 AC_INIT([Litecoin Core],m4_join([.], _CLIENT_VERSION_MAJOR, _CLIENT_VERSION_MINOR, _CLIENT_VERSION_REVISION, m4_if(_CLIENT_VERSION_BUILD, [0], [], _CLIENT_VERSION_BUILD))m4_if(_CLIENT_VERSION_RC, [0], [], [rc]_CLIENT_VERSION_RC),[https://github.com/litecoin-project/litecoin/issues],[litecoin],[https://litecoin.org/])