GethN7/My feelings on TV Tropes' copyright limitations/c000002

That seems to be how they are running things. Apparently, instead of the site being a commons, they see it as a place where users are allowed to submit their content as long as they surrender their rights to it as soon as they do.

That goes against the spirit of a community driven website and is more a policy that would benefit a business rather than a nonprofit resource, and I agree the knowledge the TVT administration has of copyright and reuse seems to be rather poor, at least from where I'm sitting.

As for fixing the damage, I hope so, and I hope our efforts do produce a better troping resource in the long run.