diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index b5984b0e..cd63c617 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 GNU Wget NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.
 
-Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright (C) 1997-2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 See the end for copying conditions.
 
 Please send GNU Wget bug reports to <bug-wget@gnu.org>.
@@ -566,7 +566,7 @@ geturl -vo log http://fly.cc.fer.hr/
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 Copyright information:
 
-Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright (C) 1997-2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
    Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim
    copies of this document as received, in any medium, provided that