diff --git a/icu4c/source/tools/cpysearch/cpyscan.pl b/icu4c/source/tools/cpysearch/cpyscan.pl
index 6692589e8a..d435e35694 100755
--- a/icu4c/source/tools/cpysearch/cpyscan.pl
+++ b/icu4c/source/tools/cpysearch/cpyscan.pl
@@ -1,15 +1,15 @@
 #!/usr/bin/perl -w
-#  ********************************************************************
+#  ***********************************************************************
 #  * COPYRIGHT:
-#  * Copyright (c) 2002-2004, International Business Machines Corporation and
-#  * others. All Rights Reserved.
-#  ********************************************************************
+#  * Copyright (c) 2002-2004, International Business Machines Corporation
+#  * and others. All Rights Reserved.
+#  ***********************************************************************
 use strict;
 
 my $icuSource = $ARGV[0];
-my $ignore = "data/out/build|CVS|\\~|\\#|Debug|Release|\\.dll|\\.ilk|\\.pdb|\\.dsp|\\.dsw|\\.opt|\\.ncb|\\.vcproj|\\.sln|\\.suo|\\.cvsignore|\\.cnv|\\.res|\\.icu|\\.exe|\\.obj|\\.bin|\\.exp|\\.lib|\\.out|\\.plg|positions|unidata|\\.jar|\\.spp|\\.stub|\\.policy";
+my $ignore = "data/out/build|CVS|\\~|\\#|Debug|Release|\\.dll|\\.ilk|\\.idb|\\.pdb|\\.dsp|\\.dsw|\\.opt|\\.ncb|\\.vcproj|\\.sln|\\.suo|\\.cvsignore|\\.cnv|\\.res|\\.icu|\\.exe|\\.obj|\\.bin|\\.exp|\\.lib|\\.out|\\.plg|positions|unidata|\\.jar|\\.spp|\\.stub|\\.policy";
 
-my $command = "find $icuSource -type f";
+my $command = "find $icuSource -type f | fgrep -v -f cpyskip.txt";
 my @files = `$command`;
 @files = grep(!/$ignore/, @files);
 my $file;
diff --git a/icu4c/source/tools/cpysearch/cpysearch.pl b/icu4c/source/tools/cpysearch/cpysearch.pl
index 135067fa6a..c6405b5fa1 100755
--- a/icu4c/source/tools/cpysearch/cpysearch.pl
+++ b/icu4c/source/tools/cpysearch/cpysearch.pl
@@ -1,18 +1,18 @@
 #!/usr/bin/perl -w
-#  ********************************************************************
+#  ***********************************************************************
 #  * COPYRIGHT:
-#  * Copyright (c) 2002-2004, International Business Machines Corporation and
-#  * others. All Rights Reserved.
-#  ********************************************************************
+#  * Copyright (c) 2002-2004, International Business Machines Corporation
+#  * and others. All Rights Reserved.
+#  ***********************************************************************
 use strict;
 
 my $icuSource = $ARGV[0];
-my $ignore = "CVS|\\~|\\#|Debug|Release|\\.dll|\\.ilk|\\.pdb|\\.dsp|\\.dsw|\\.opt|\\.ncb|\\.vcproj|\\.sln|\\.suo|\\.cvsignore|\\.cnv|\\.res|\\.icu|\\.exe|\\.obj|\\.bin|\\.exp|\\.lib|\\.out|\\.plg|positions|unidata|\\.jar|\\.spp|\\.stub|\\.policy";
+my $ignore = "CVS|\\~|\\#|Debug|Release|\\.dll|\\.ilk|\\.idb|\\.pdb|\\.dsp|\\.dsw|\\.opt|\\.ncb|\\.vcproj|\\.sln|\\.suo|\\.cvsignore|\\.cnv|\\.res|\\.icu|\\.exe|\\.obj|\\.bin|\\.exp|\\.lib|\\.out|\\.plg|positions|unidata|\\.jar|\\.spp|\\.stub|\\.policy";
 
 my ($sec, $min, $hour, , $day, $mon, $year, $wday, $yday, $isdst) = localtime;
 $year += 1900;
 
-my $command = "find $icuSource -type f -mtime -$yday";
+my $command = "find $icuSource -type f -mtime -$yday | fgrep -v -f cpyskip.txt";
 my @files = `$command`;
 @files = grep(!/$ignore/, @files);
 my $file;
diff --git a/icu4c/source/tools/cpysearch/cpyskip.txt b/icu4c/source/tools/cpysearch/cpyskip.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..76fb80cd85
--- /dev/null
+++ b/icu4c/source/tools/cpysearch/cpyskip.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,76 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2004 International Business Machines 
+# Corporation and others. All Rights Reserved.
+# ICU4C files that don't need an IBM copyright
+as_is/os400/configure
+debian/changelog
+debian/control
+debian/icu-doc.doc-base
+debian/icu.conffiles.in
+source/config.guess
+source/config.sub
+source/configure
+source/data/brkitr/thaidict.brk
+source/extra/uconv/pkgdatain.txt
+source/extra/uconv/samples/danish-ISO-8859-1.txt
+source/extra/uconv/samples/eucJP.txt
+source/extra/uconv/samples/hangul-eucKR.txt
+source/extra/uconv/samples/hania-eucKR.txt
+source/extra/uconv/samples/ISO-8859-2.txt
+source/extra/uconv/samples/ISO-8859-3.txt
+source/extra/uconv/samples/iso8859-1.txt
+source/extra/uconv/samples/koi8r.txt
+source/extra/uconv/samples/utf8/armenian.txt
+source/extra/uconv/samples/utf8/banviet.txt
+source/extra/uconv/samples/utf8/chinese-ulysses.txt
+source/extra/uconv/samples/utf8/croat.txt
+source/extra/uconv/samples/utf8/danish.txt
+source/extra/uconv/samples/utf8/greek.txt
+source/extra/uconv/samples/utf8/hangul.txt
+source/extra/uconv/samples/utf8/hania.txt
+source/extra/uconv/samples/utf8/jap.txt
+source/extra/uconv/samples/utf8/korean.txt
+source/extra/uconv/samples/utf8/linji.txt
+source/extra/uconv/samples/utf8/many.txt
+source/extra/uconv/samples/utf8/maopoem.txt
+source/extra/uconv/samples/utf8/russian.txt
+source/extra/uconv/samples/utf8/simplechinese.txt
+source/extra/uconv/samples/utf8/turkish.txt
+source/extra/uconv/samples/utf8/utf-8-demo.txt
+source/install-sh
+source/samples/layout/Sample.txt
+source/samples/ucnv/data01.txt
+source/samples/ufortune/resources/res-file-list.txt
+source/test/testdata/CollationTest_NON_IGNORABLE_STUB.txt
+source/test/testdata/CollationTest_SHIFTED_STUB.txt
+source/test/testdata/re_tests.txt
+source/test/testdata/riwords.txt
+source/test/thaitest/space.txt
+source/test/unalignedtest/unaligned.c
+source/tools/gendraft/DeprecatedApi.txt
+source/tools/gendraft/DraftApi.txt
+source/tools/gendraft/ObsoleteApi.txt
+source/tools/tzcode/patch-icu-tzcode
+#ICU4JNI files that don't need an IBM copyright
+src/classes/com/ibm/icu4jni/test/text/NormalizationTest.txt
+src/native/converter/ConverterInterface.h
+#ICU4J files that don't need an IBM copyright
+src/com/ibm/icu/dev/data/holidays_jp.ucs
+src/com/ibm/icu/dev/data/rbbi/english.dict
+src/com/ibm/icu/dev/data/rbbi/words.txt
+src/com/ibm/icu/dev/data/riwords.txt
+src/com/ibm/icu/dev/data/thai6.ucs
+src/com/ibm/icu/dev/data/ThaiWordFreq.xls
+src/com/ibm/icu/dev/data/unicode/CompositionExclusions.txt
+src/com/ibm/icu/dev/data/unicode/NormalizationCorrections.txt
+src/com/ibm/icu/dev/data/unicode/NormalizationTest-3.2.0.txt
+src/com/ibm/icu/dev/data/unicode/NormalizationTest.txt
+src/com/ibm/icu/dev/data/unicode/SpecialCasing.txt
+src/com/ibm/icu/dev/data/unicode/ucdterms.txt
+src/com/ibm/icu/dev/data/unicode/UnicodeData.txt
+src/com/ibm/icu/dev/tool/docs/icu4j28.api.gz
+src/com/ibm/icu/dev/tool/docs/icu4j30.api.gz
+src/com/ibm/icu/dev/tool/ime/indic/services/java.awt.im.spi.InputMethodDescriptor
+src/com/ibm/icu/dev/tool/ime/translit/services/java.awt.im.spi.InputMethodDescriptor
+src/com/ibm/icu/impl/data/th.brk
+src/com/ibm/richtext/textapps/resources/unicode.arabic.red
+src/com/ibm/richtext/textapps/resources/unicode.hebrew.red