diff --git a/LICENSE.md b/LICENSE.md
index 84a49643..1e1037a5 100644
--- a/LICENSE.md
+++ b/LICENSE.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 The MIT License (MIT)
 
-Copyright (c) 2013-2017 SendGrid
+Copyright (c) 2013-2017 SendGrid, Inc.
 
 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/src/test/java/com/sendgrid/LicenseTest.java b/src/test/java/com/sendgrid/LicenseTest.java
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..1e06bf71
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/test/java/com/sendgrid/LicenseTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+package com.sendgrid;
+
+import org.junit.Assert;
+import org.junit.Test;
+
+import java.io.BufferedReader;
+import java.io.FileReader;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.util.Calendar;
+
+public class LicenseTest {
+
+    @Test
+    public void testLicenseShouldHaveCorrectYear() throws IOException {
+        String copyrightText = null;
+        try (BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new FileReader("./LICENSE.md"))) {
+            for (String line; (line = br.readLine()) != null; ) {
+                if (line.startsWith("Copyright")) {
+                    copyrightText = line;
+                    break;
+                }
+            }
+        }
+        String expectedCopyright = String.format("Copyright (c) 2013-%d SendGrid, Inc.", Calendar.getInstance().get(Calendar.YEAR));
+        Assert.assertEquals("License has incorrect year", copyrightText, expectedCopyright);
+    }
+}