diff --git a/VisualEditorMessagesModule.php b/VisualEditorMessagesModule.php
index 2becf1656d..30750b6afb 100644
--- a/VisualEditorMessagesModule.php
+++ b/VisualEditorMessagesModule.php
@@ -20,18 +20,61 @@ class VisualEditorMessagesModule extends ResourceLoaderModule {
 	/* Methods */
 
 	public function getScript( ResourceLoaderContext $context ) {
+		$msgInfo = $this->getMessageInfo();
 		$parsedMesssages = array();
-		foreach ( $this->getMessages() as $msgKey ) {
-			$parsedMesssages[$msgKey] = wfMessage( $msgKey )->parse();
+		foreach ( $msgInfo['args'] as $msgKey => $msgArgs ) {
+			$parsedMesssages[ $msgKey ] = call_user_func_array( 'wfMessage', $msgArgs )
+				->inLanguage( $context->getLanguage() )
+				->parse();
 		}
 		return 've.init.platform.addParsedMessages(' . FormatJson::encode( $parsedMesssages ) . ');';
 	}
 
+	protected function getMessageInfo() {
+		$msgKeys = array();
+
+		// Simple ones
+		$msgArgs = array(
+			'minoredit' => array( 'minoredit' ),
+			'watchthis' => array( 'watchthis' ),
+		);
+
+		// Copyright warning (based on EditPage::getCopyrightWarning)
+		global $wgRightsText;
+		if ( $wgRightsText ) {
+			$copywarnMsg = array( 'copyrightwarning',
+				'[[' . wfMessage( 'copyrightpage' )->inContentLanguage()->text() . ']]',
+				$wgRightsText );
+		} else {
+			$copywarnMsg = array( 'copyrightwarning2',
+				'[[' . wfMessage( 'copyrightpage' )->inContentLanguage()->text() . ']]' );
+		}
+		// EditPage supports customisation based on title, we can't support that here
+		// since these messages are cached on a site-level. $wgTitle is likely set to null.
+		$title = Title::newFromText( 'Dwimmerlaik' );
+		wfRunHooks( 'EditPageCopyrightWarning', array( $title, &$copywarnMsg ) );
+
+		// Keys used in copyright warning
+		$msgKeys[] = 'copyrightpage';
+		$msgKeys[] = $copywarnMsg[0];
+		// Normalise to 'copyrightwarning' so we have a consistent key in the front-end.
+		$msgArgs[ 'copyrightwarning' ] = $copywarnMsg;
+
+		$msgKeys = array_values( array_unique( array_merge( $msgKeys, array_keys( $msgArgs ) ) ) );
+
+		return array(
+			'keys' => $msgKeys,
+			'args' => $msgArgs,
+		);
+	}
+
 	public function getMessages() {
-		// We don't actually enable the client-side message system for these messages.
-		// But registering them in this standardised method to make use of the getMsgBlobMtime
-		// utility for make cache invalidation work out-of-the-box.
-		return array( 'minoredit', 'watchthis' );
+		// We don't actually use the client-side message system for these messages.
+		// But we're registering them in this standardised method to make use of the
+		// getMsgBlobMtime utility to make cache invalidation work out-of-the-box.
+
+		$msgInfo = $this->getMessageInfo();
+		return $msgInfo['keys'];
 	}
 
 	public function getDependencies() {
diff --git a/modules/ve/init/mw/targets/ve.init.mw.ViewPageTarget.js b/modules/ve/init/mw/targets/ve.init.mw.ViewPageTarget.js
index d0cd6cb52f..95ffd5974f 100644
--- a/modules/ve/init/mw/targets/ve.init.mw.ViewPageTarget.js
+++ b/modules/ve/init/mw/targets/ve.init.mw.ViewPageTarget.js
@@ -835,17 +835,7 @@ ve.init.mw.ViewPageTarget.prototype.setupSaveDialog = function () {
 				.text( ve.msg( viewPage.restoring ? 'visualeditor-restore-page' : 'savearticle' ) )
 				.end()
 			.find( '.ve-init-mw-viewPageTarget-saveDialog-license' )
-				// FIXME license text is hardcoded English
-				.html(
-					'By editing this page, you agree to irrevocably release your \
-					contributions under the CC-BY-SA 3.0 License. If you don\'t want your \
-					writing to be edited mercilessly and redistrubuted at will, then \
-					don\'t submit it here.<br/><br/>You are also confirming that you \
-					wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free \
-					resource. See Project:Copyright for full details of the licenses \
-					used on this site.\
-					<b>DO NOT SUBMIT COPYRIGHTED WORK WITHOUT PERMISSION!</b>'
-				);
+				.html( ve.init.platform.getParsedMessage( 'copyrightwarning' ) );
 		viewPage.$saveDialogSaveButton = viewPage.$saveDialog
 			.find( '.ve-init-mw-viewPageTarget-saveDialog-saveButton' );
 		viewPage.$saveDialogLoadingIcon = viewPage.$saveDialog