diff --git a/lib/MusicBrainz/Script/JSONDump.pm b/lib/MusicBrainz/Script/JSONDump.pm
index 42f38a6dd93..67fccaefe4d 100644
--- a/lib/MusicBrainz/Script/JSONDump.pm
+++ b/lib/MusicBrainz/Script/JSONDump.pm
@@ -91,6 +91,13 @@ sub create_json_dump {
     local $MusicBrainz::Script::MBDump::readme_text = <<'EOF';
 The file under mbdump/ contains one document (entity) per line, in JSON
 format, and is named according to the type of entity in the dump.
+EOF
+
+    my $copying_text = <<'EOF';
+The content of this dump is licensed under the CC0 license
+(see COPYING-PublicDomain), except for any data under keys "annotation",
+"genres", "ratings" and "tags", which is licensed under a Creative Commons
+Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 license (see COPYING-CCShareAlike).
 EOF
 
     my $mbdump = MusicBrainz::Script::MBDump->new(
@@ -100,9 +107,16 @@ EOF
         %mbdump_options,
     );
 
+    $mbdump->write_file('COPYING', $copying_text);
+
     $mbdump->copy_file(
         catfile(DBDefs->MB_SERVER_ROOT, 'admin', 'COPYING-PublicDomain'),
-        'COPYING'
+        'COPYING-PublicDomain'
+    ) or die $OS_ERROR;
+
+    $mbdump->copy_file(
+        catfile(DBDefs->MB_SERVER_ROOT, 'admin', 'COPYING-CCShareAlike'),
+        'COPYING-CCShareAlike'
     ) or die $OS_ERROR;
 
     $mbdump->write_file('JSON_DUMPS_SCHEMA_NUMBER', "1\n");
@@ -114,7 +128,11 @@ EOF
     if ($self->compression_enabled) {
         $mbdump->make_tar(
             "$dump_fname.tar.xz",
-            "mbdump/$dump_fname",
+            (
+                "mbdump/$dump_fname",
+                'COPYING-PublicDomain',
+                'COPYING-CCShareAlike',
+            ),
             'JSON_DUMPS_SCHEMA_NUMBER',
         );
     } else {
diff --git a/t/script/DumpJSON.t b/t/script/DumpJSON.t
index 7447eda0aa7..c6f68f9900a 100755
--- a/t/script/DumpJSON.t
+++ b/t/script/DumpJSON.t
@@ -127,6 +127,24 @@ test all => sub {
             File::Spec->catfile($dir, $entity, 'JSON_DUMPS_SCHEMA_NUMBER'));
         chomp $got;
         is($got, '1');
+
+        $got = read_file(
+            File::Spec->catfile($dir, $entity, 'COPYING'));
+        chomp $got;
+        ok(
+            $got =~ 'see COPYING-CCShareAlike',
+            'The COPYING file refers users to the per-license COPYING files',
+        );
+
+        ok(
+            -f File::Spec->catfile($dir, $entity, 'COPYING-PublicDomain'),
+            'The COPYING-PublicDomain file is included in the bundle',
+        );
+
+        ok(
+            -f File::Spec->catfile($dir, $entity, 'COPYING-CCShareAlike'),
+            'The COPYING-CCShareAlike file is included in the bundle',
+        );
     };
 
     my $test_dumps_empty_except = sub {