Thread:All The Tropes talk:Copyrights/TVT Copypasta: best practices?/reply

Formatting Fixes are not copyrightable, because they're not creative in any real sense. If an editor working for a book publisher changes a manuscript, the copyright is still assigned to the original author, because the creative contribution is so limited.

But yeah, attribute yourself if you wrote it, and are moving it from another site. Write something like "comment... (copied my work from TV Tropes)" or "(my own edits)" or such. If we can tell it's copy-pasting, then we can point to that and say, "Oh look, we were given permission here." The bar is a little bit higher.

Anyway, looks like I need to add a note to this effect in ATT:Copyrights.