diff --git a/openlp/core/ui/aboutdialog.py b/openlp/core/ui/aboutdialog.py
index c6866c8d7..da818d658 100644
--- a/openlp/core/ui/aboutdialog.py
+++ b/openlp/core/ui/aboutdialog.py
@@ -169,8 +169,9 @@ class Ui_AboutDialog(object):
             self.AboutNotebook.indexOf(self.CreditsTab),
             translate('AboutForm', 'Credits'))
         self.LicenseTextEdit.setPlainText(translate('AboutForm', 
-            'Copyright \xa9 2004-2010 Raoul Snyman\n'
-            'Portions copyright \xa9 2004-2010 '
+            'Copyright ' + u'\u00a9'.encode('utf8') + 
+            ' 2004-2010 Raoul Snyman\n'
+            'Portions copyright ' + u'\u00a9'.encode('utf8') +  '2004-2010 '
             'Tim Bentley, Jonathan Corwin, Michael Gorven, Scott Guerrieri, '
             'Christian Richter, Maikel Stuivenberg, Martin Thompson, Jon '
             'Tibble, Carsten Tinggaard\n'
diff --git a/openlp/plugins/songs/forms/editsongdialog.py b/openlp/plugins/songs/forms/editsongdialog.py
index 34e15ce59..3087334d0 100644
--- a/openlp/plugins/songs/forms/editsongdialog.py
+++ b/openlp/plugins/songs/forms/editsongdialog.py
@@ -482,7 +482,7 @@ class Ui_EditSongDialog(object):
         self.CopyrightGroupBox.setTitle(
             translate('SongsPlugin.EditSongForm', 'Copyright Information'))
         self.CopyrightInsertButton.setText(
-            translate('SongsPlugin.EditSongForm', '\xa9'))
+            translate('SongsPlugin.EditSongForm', u'\u00a9'.encode('utf8')))
         self.CCLILabel.setText(
             translate('SongsPlugin.EditSongForm', 'CCLI Number:'))
         self.CommentsGroupBox.setTitle(
diff --git a/openlp/plugins/songs/forms/editsongform.py b/openlp/plugins/songs/forms/editsongform.py
index fd731b821..95125fabf 100644
--- a/openlp/plugins/songs/forms/editsongform.py
+++ b/openlp/plugins/songs/forms/editsongform.py
@@ -589,7 +589,7 @@ class EditSongForm(QtGui.QDialog, Ui_EditSongDialog):
     def onCopyrightInsertButtonTriggered(self):
         text = self.CopyrightEditItem.text()
         pos = self.CopyrightEditItem.cursorPosition()
-        text = text[:pos] + u'\xa9' + text[pos:]
+        text = text[:pos] + u'\u00a9'.encode('utf8') + text[pos:]
         self.CopyrightEditItem.setText(text)
         self.CopyrightEditItem.setFocus()
         self.CopyrightEditItem.setCursorPosition(pos + 1)
diff --git a/openlp/plugins/songs/lib/songimport.py b/openlp/plugins/songs/lib/songimport.py
index ede946dc7..6dd9572ee 100644
--- a/openlp/plugins/songs/lib/songimport.py
+++ b/openlp/plugins/songs/lib/songimport.py
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ class SongImport(object):
         self.copyright_string = unicode(translate(
             'SongsPlugin.SongImport', 'copyright'))
         self.copyright_symbol = unicode(translate(
-            'SongsPlugin.SongImport', '\xa9'))
+            'SongsPlugin.SongImport', u'\u00a9'.encode('utf8')))
 
     @staticmethod
     def process_songs_text(manager, text):