diff --git a/COPYING b/COPYING
index 9d9e4af8d8..48f144758e 100644
--- a/COPYING
+++ b/COPYING
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 COPYRIGHT AND PERMISSION NOTICE
 
-Copyright (c) 1996 - 2020, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, and many
+Copyright (c) 1996 - 2021, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, and many
 contributors, see the THANKS file.
 
 All rights reserved.
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 555debfd41..e72aca6041 100755
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 #                            | (__| |_| |  _ <| |___
 #                             \___|\___/|_| \_\_____|
 #
-# Copyright (C) 1998 - 2020, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
+# Copyright (C) 1998 - 2021, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
 #
 # This software is licensed as described in the file COPYING, which
 # you should have received as part of this distribution. The terms
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ XC_OVR_ZZ60
 CURL_OVERRIDE_AUTOCONF
 
 dnl configure script copyright
-AC_COPYRIGHT([Copyright (c) 1998 - 2020 Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>
+AC_COPYRIGHT([Copyright (c) 1998 - 2021 Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>
 This configure script may be copied, distributed and modified under the
 terms of the curl license; see COPYING for more details])