diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 0fdb0738cdf4..0249b153651b 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -3246,6 +3246,10 @@ sub process {
 			} elsif ($rawline =~ /^\+.*\b[a-z][\w\.\+\-]*:\/\/\S+/i) {
 				$msg_type = "";
 
+			# Long copyright statements are another special case
+			} elsif ($rawline =~ /^\+.\*.*copyright.*\(c\).*$/i) {
+				$msg_type = "";
+
 			# Otherwise set the alternate message types
 
 			# a comment starts before $max_line_length