diff --git a/snippets/copyright/index.js b/snippets/copyright/index.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e6a3767
--- /dev/null
+++ b/snippets/copyright/index.js
@@ -0,0 +1,153 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright (C) Sapphirecode - All Rights Reserved
+ * This file is part of snippeteer which is released under BSD-3-Clause.
+ * See file 'LICENSE' for full license details.
+ * Created by Timo Hocker <timo@scode.ovh>, March 2020
+ */
+
+/* eslint-disable no-sync */
+/* eslint-disable no-console */
+
+'use strict';
+
+const fs = require ('fs-extra');
+const path = require ('path');
+
+/**
+ * @param {string} folder folder to scan
+ * @param {Function} func function to execute on file contents
+ */
+async function map_all_files (folder, func) {
+  const files = await fs.readDir (folder);
+  for (const file of files) {
+    if ([ 'node_modules' ].includes (file))
+      continue;
+    const abs_path = path.join (folder, file);
+    if (await fs.stat (abs_path).isDirectory)
+      map_all_files (abs_path, func);
+
+    const data = await fs.readFile (abs_path);
+    const res = func (data);
+    if (res === null)
+      continue;
+    await fs.writeFile (abs_path, res);
+  }
+}
+
+/**
+ * @param {string} license license name
+ * @param {string} software software name
+ * @returns {string} copyright notice
+ */
+function get_copyright_notice (license = '', software = '') {
+  let notice = '';
+  if (license) {
+    notice = `${'/*'}
+ * Copyright (C) Sapphirecode - All Rights Reserved
+ * This file is part of ${software} which is released under ${license}.
+ * See file 'LICENSE' for full license details.
+ * Created by Timo Hocker <timo@scode.ovh>, ${month} ${year}
+ */
+
+`;
+  }
+  else {
+    notice = `${'/*'}
+ * Copyright (C) Sapphirecode - All Rights Reserved
+ * Created by Timo Hocker <timo@scode.ovh>, ${month} ${year}
+ */
+
+`;
+  }
+  return notice;
+}
+
+/**
+ * @param folder
+ * @param license
+ */
+function fix_all_copy (folder, license) {
+  const regex = /\/\*\s+\*\sCopyright[\s\S]*?\*\//g;
+  map_all_files (folder, (data) => {
+    if (!regex.test (data))
+      return null;
+    return get_copyright_notice (license) + data.replace (regex, '');
+  });
+}
+
+/**
+ * copies the full template to a new folder named after arg[0]
+ *
+ * @param {string} folder folder to run in
+ * @param {Array} args function arguments
+ */
+function run (folder, args) {
+  const snip_folder_path = [ folder ];
+  if (args.length > 0)
+    snip_folder_path.push (args[0]);
+  const snip_folder = path.join (...snip_folder_path);
+  const template = path.join (__dirname, 'template');
+  if (!fs.existsSync (snip_folder))
+    fs.mkdir (snip_folder);
+  for (const f of fs.readdirSync (template)) {
+    fs.copy (
+      path.join (template, f),
+      path.join (snip_folder, f),
+      {
+        recursive: true,
+        filter:    (src, dest) => !fs.existsSync (dest)
+      }
+    );
+  }
+}
+
+/**
+ * checks if the arguments meet the requirements
+ *
+ * @param {string} folder folder to run in
+ * @param {Array} args function arguments
+ * @returns {boolean} true if arguments match requirements
+ */
+function assert (folder, args) {
+  const tests = [
+    {
+      f:      () => (args.length < 2),
+      reason: 'too many arguments'
+    },
+    {
+      f:      () => (args.length === 0 || typeof args[0] === 'string'),
+      reason: 'name is not a string'
+    },
+    {
+      f:      () => (args.length === 0 || (/^[a-z]+$/iu).test (args[0])),
+      reason: 'name can only contain [a-z]'
+    },
+    {
+      f:      () => (typeof folder === 'string'),
+      reason: 'cwd is not a folder (internal error)'
+    },
+    {
+      f:      () => (fs.existsSync (folder)),
+      reason: 'cwd does not exist (internal error)'
+    },
+    {
+      f:      () => (args.length === 1 || fs.readdirSync (folder).length === 0),
+      reason: 'folder is not empty'
+    },
+    {
+      f:      () => (args.length === 0
+          || !fs.existsSync (path.join (folder, args[0]))),
+      reason: 'folder already exists'
+    }
+  ];
+  for (const test of tests) {
+    if (!test.f ()) {
+      console.log (test.reason);
+      return false;
+    }
+  }
+
+  return true;
+}
+
+module.exports = { run, assert };
diff --git a/snippets/db/dot_parser.js b/snippets/db/dot_parser.js
index 994d245..83b5de5 100644
--- a/snippets/db/dot_parser.js
+++ b/snippets/db/dot_parser.js
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 /* eslint-disable no-magic-numbers */
+/* eslint-disable no-console */
 
 'use strict';