diff --git a/LICENSE.md b/LICENSE.md
index 71056e7..89f4d44 100644
--- a/LICENSE.md
+++ b/LICENSE.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 MIT License
 
-Copyright (c) 2023 Anton Van Assche
+Copyright (c) 2023-2024 Anton Van Assche
 
 Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
 of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
diff --git a/bashpass-remote b/bashpass-remote
index b560a7f..d0c0406 100755
--- a/bashpass-remote
+++ b/bashpass-remote
@@ -127,6 +127,7 @@ copy() {
     password=$(ssh -t "${user}@${host}" '$(command -v bashpass) --show' "${1}") || \
         error_out "failed to retrieve password '${1}' from remote" 1
     password=${password#*: }
+    [[ -z "${password}" ]] && error_out "failed to strip password '${1}' from remote response" 1
 
     if [[ "${1}" ]]; then
         if printf '%s' "${password}" | "${clipboard_command}"; then