diff --git a/bazel/BUILD b/bazel/BUILD
index 2d3c576aa0e..fe776b20ef2 100644
--- a/bazel/BUILD
+++ b/bazel/BUILD
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 2016, Google Inc.
+# Copyright 2017, Google Inc.
 # All rights reserved.
 #
 # Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
diff --git a/src/proto/grpc/testing/BUILD b/src/proto/grpc/testing/BUILD
index 8d5c32d35cb..283740839d9 100644
--- a/src/proto/grpc/testing/BUILD
+++ b/src/proto/grpc/testing/BUILD
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 2016, Google Inc.
+# Copyright 2017, Google Inc.
 # All rights reserved.
 #
 # Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
diff --git a/src/proto/grpc/testing/duplicate/BUILD b/src/proto/grpc/testing/duplicate/BUILD
index f58de9bec69..8fc5a96af40 100644
--- a/src/proto/grpc/testing/duplicate/BUILD
+++ b/src/proto/grpc/testing/duplicate/BUILD
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 2016, Google Inc.
+# Copyright 2017, Google Inc.
 # All rights reserved.
 #
 # Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
diff --git a/test/core/util/BUILD b/test/core/util/BUILD
index e7ed5ea2f59..8769683b23a 100644
--- a/test/core/util/BUILD
+++ b/test/core/util/BUILD
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 2016, Google Inc.
+# Copyright 2017, Google Inc.
 # All rights reserved.
 #
 # Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
diff --git a/tools/distrib/check_copyright.py b/tools/distrib/check_copyright.py
index 718bb563f3a..c993407eb24 100755
--- a/tools/distrib/check_copyright.py
+++ b/tools/distrib/check_copyright.py
@@ -90,6 +90,7 @@ LICENSE_PREFIX = {
   'Makefile':   r'#\s*',
   'Dockerfile': r'#\s*',
   'LICENSE':    '',
+  'BUILD':      r'#\s*',
 }
 
 _EXEMPT = frozenset((