2016 will be another year of writing copyrighted code
diff --git a/Doc/copyright.rst b/Doc/copyright.rst
index 2b2f887..22d7705 100644
--- a/Doc/copyright.rst
+++ b/Doc/copyright.rst
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 
 Python and this documentation is:
 
-Copyright © 2001-2015 Python Software Foundation. All rights reserved.
+Copyright © 2001-2016 Python Software Foundation. All rights reserved.
 
 Copyright © 2000 BeOpen.com. All rights reserved.
 
diff --git a/Doc/license.rst b/Doc/license.rst
index c47f478..052a4e5 100644
--- a/Doc/license.rst
+++ b/Doc/license.rst
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@
    analyze, test, perform and/or display publicly, prepare derivative works,
    distribute, and otherwise use Python |release| alone or in any derivative
    version, provided, however, that PSF's License Agreement and PSF's notice of
-   copyright, i.e., "Copyright © 2001-2015 Python Software Foundation; All Rights
+   copyright, i.e., "Copyright © 2001-2016 Python Software Foundation; All Rights
    Reserved" are retained in Python |release| alone or in any derivative version
    prepared by Licensee.
 
diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE
index 88251f5..a1ea80d 100644
--- a/LICENSE
+++ b/LICENSE
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@
 distribute, and otherwise use Python alone or in any derivative version,
 provided, however, that PSF's License Agreement and PSF's notice of copyright,
 i.e., "Copyright (c) 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010,
-2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 Python Software Foundation; All Rights Reserved"
+2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015,2016 Python Software Foundation; All Rights Reserved"
 are retained in Python alone or in any derivative version prepared by Licensee.
 
 3. In the event Licensee prepares a derivative work that is based on
diff --git a/PC/python_nt.rc b/PC/python_nt.rc
index ae16097..19bcbdd 100644
--- a/PC/python_nt.rc
+++ b/PC/python_nt.rc
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@
             VALUE "FileDescription", "Python Core\0"
             VALUE "FileVersion", PYTHON_VERSION
             VALUE "InternalName", "Python DLL\0"
-            VALUE "LegalCopyright", "Copyright © 2001-2015 Python Software Foundation. Copyright © 2000 BeOpen.com. Copyright © 1995-2001 CNRI. Copyright © 1991-1995 SMC.\0"
+            VALUE "LegalCopyright", "Copyright © 2001-2016 Python Software Foundation. Copyright © 2000 BeOpen.com. Copyright © 1995-2001 CNRI. Copyright © 1991-1995 SMC.\0"
             VALUE "OriginalFilename", PYTHON_DLL_NAME "\0"
             VALUE "ProductName", "Python\0"
             VALUE "ProductVersion", PYTHON_VERSION
diff --git a/Python/getcopyright.c b/Python/getcopyright.c
index 913e1d2..c97eaeb 100644
--- a/Python/getcopyright.c
+++ b/Python/getcopyright.c
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 
 static char cprt[] = 
 "\
-Copyright (c) 2001-2015 Python Software Foundation.\n\
+Copyright (c) 2001-2016 Python Software Foundation.\n\
 All Rights Reserved.\n\
 \n\
 Copyright (c) 2000 BeOpen.com.\n\
diff --git a/README b/README
index 16b7a46..7359d9d 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 =============================
 
 Copyright (c) 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011,
-2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 Python Software Foundation.  All rights reserved.
+2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 Python Software Foundation.  All rights reserved.
 
 Copyright (c) 2000 BeOpen.com.
 All rights reserved.