1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/lisp/emacs-lisp/copyright.el b/lisp/emacs-lisp/copyright.el
index 345a76a22d1..d745a245e8e 100644
--- a/lisp/emacs-lisp/copyright.el
+++ b/lisp/emacs-lisp/copyright.el
@@ -113,9 +113,9 @@ When this is `function', only ask when called non-interactively."
                   (progn (forward-char 1) t)
                   (progn (skip-chars-forward " \t") (eolp))
                   comment-start-skip
-                  (progn
+                  (save-match-data
                     (forward-line 1)
-                    (and (looking-at-p comment-start-skip)
+                    (and (looking-at comment-start-skip)
                          (goto-char (match-end 0))))
                   (looking-at-p copyright-years-regexp)))
       (forward-line 1)