diff --git a/LICENSE.txt b/LICENSE.txt
index 664d55c..74eeb91 100644
--- a/LICENSE.txt
+++ b/LICENSE.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 comport - PD External for the serial Ports
 
-Institute for Electronic Music and Acoustics
+iem - Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustics
 Copyright (C) 1998-2005 Winfried Ritsch
  © 2005-2012 Hans-Christoph Steiner
  © 2006-2015 Martin Peach
diff --git a/README.txt b/README.txt
index 80e4b45..ea10668 100644
--- a/README.txt
+++ b/README.txt
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 comport - Pd external for unix/windows to use the serial ports
 
  (c) 1998-2005  Winfried Ritsch (see LICENCE.txt)
- Institute for Electronic Music - Graz
+ iem - Institute of Electronic Music - Graz
 
 on Windows the COM0, COM1, ... are used and 
 under Unix devices /dev/ttyS0, /dev/ttyS1, ...
diff --git a/bird/LICENCE.txt b/bird/LICENCE.txt
index 42ed0f9..916ea53 100644
--- a/bird/LICENCE.txt
+++ b/bird/LICENCE.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 bird - PD External for interfacing the flock of birds tracker.
 
-Institute for Electronic Music and Acoustics
+iem -- Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustics
 Copyright (C) 1998-2005 Winfried Ritsch
 
 
diff --git a/bird/README.txt b/bird/README.txt
index 25b8e0b..ab5f35d 100644
--- a/bird/README.txt
+++ b/bird/README.txt
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 bird - PD external for unix/windows to use the flock of birds
 
  (c) 1998-2005  Winfried Ritsch (see LICENCE.txt)
- Institute for Electronic Music - Graz
+ iem -- Institute of Electronic Music - Graz
 
 the external comport is also needed for interfacing.
 
diff --git a/bird/bird.c b/bird/bird.c
index 70739de..d1fa651 100644
--- a/bird/bird.c
+++ b/bird/bird.c
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
  Date:  16.01.97
  Author: Winfried Ritsch (see LICENCE.txt)
 
- Institute for Electronic Music - Graz
+ iem -- Institute of Electronic Music - Graz
 
  Desc.:  put the object in a correct parse state and send commands
 
diff --git a/comport.c b/comport.c
index e8365cf..81283bd 100644
--- a/comport.c
+++ b/comport.c
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 /* comport - PD external for unix/windows
 
  (c) 1998-2005  Winfried Ritsch (see LICENCE.txt)
- Institute for Electronic Music - Graz
+ iem -- Institute of Electronic Music - Graz
 
  V 1.0
 MP 20060603 memset and memcpy arguments were backwards for Windows version. close_serial doesn't crash now.
@@ -2054,5 +2054,5 @@ void comport_setup(void)
 #endif /* NOT _WIN32 */
     logpost(0, PD_DEBUG, "comport - Pd external for unix/windows\n"
         "LGPL-2.1+ 1998-2022,  Winfried Ritsch and others (see LICENSE.txt)\n"
-        "Institute for Electronic Music - Graz");
+        "Institute of Electronic Music - Graz");
 }