diff --git a/NOTICE.txt b/NOTICE.txt
index a20994f48b..d13fda1530 100644
--- a/NOTICE.txt
+++ b/NOTICE.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 Apache Cassandra
-Copyright 2009-2014 The Apache Software Foundation
+Copyright 2009- The Apache Software Foundation
 
 This product includes software developed by The Apache Software
 Foundation (http://www.apache.org/).
diff --git a/build.xml b/build.xml
index 14f434cf7c..c544196218 100644
--- a/build.xml
+++ b/build.xml
@@ -189,7 +189,7 @@
     <sequential>
       <javadoc destdir="@{destdir}" author="true" version="true" use="true"
         windowtitle="${ant.project.name} API" classpathref="cassandra.classpath"
-        bottom="Copyright &amp;copy; ${YEAR} The Apache Software Foundation"
+        bottom="Copyright &amp;copy; 2009- The Apache Software Foundation"
         useexternalfile="yes" encoding="UTF-8"
         maxmemory="256m">
         <filesets/>