diff --git a/lib/licensee/content_helper.rb b/lib/licensee/content_helper.rb
index 7fa21c5..ab5043d 100644
--- a/lib/licensee/content_helper.rb
+++ b/lib/licensee/content_helper.rb
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ class Licensee
       content = content.gsub(/[[:space:]]+\z/, '')
       content = content.gsub(/^#{CopyrightMatcher::REGEX}$/i, '')
       content = content.gsub(/[[:space:]]+/, ' ')
-      content.squeeze(' ')
+      content.squeeze(' ').strip
     end
   end
 end
diff --git a/test/test_licensee_content_helper.rb b/test/test_licensee_content_helper.rb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..39d15aa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/test_licensee_content_helper.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+require 'helper'
+
+class TestHelper
+  include Licensee::ContentHelper
+end
+
+class TestLicenseeContentHelper < Minitest::Test
+
+  def setup
+    @helper = TestHelper.new
+  end
+
+  def normalize(content)
+    @helper.normalize_content(content)
+  end
+
+  should "downcase content" do
+    assert_equal "foo", normalize("Foo")
+  end
+
+  should "strip leading whitespace" do
+    assert_equal "foo", normalize("\n Foo")
+  end
+
+  should "strip trailing whitespace" do
+    assert_equal "foo", normalize("Foo \n ")
+  end
+
+  should "strip double spaces" do
+    assert_equal "foo bar", normalize("Foo  bar")
+  end
+
+  should "strip copyrights" do
+    assert_equal "foo", normalize("Copyright (c) 2015 Ben Balter\nFoo")
+  end
+end
diff --git a/test/test_licensee_levenshtein_matcher.rb b/test/test_licensee_levenshtein_matcher.rb
index 0f1664d..5f239e4 100644
--- a/test/test_licensee_levenshtein_matcher.rb
+++ b/test/test_licensee_levenshtein_matcher.rb
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ class TestLicenseeLevenshteinMatcher < Minitest::Test
   should "calculate length delta" do
     isc = Licensee::License.find("isc")
     assert_equal 0.0, Licensee::LevenshteinMatcher.new(@mit).length_delta(Licensee::License.find("mit"))
-    assert_equal 346.0, Licensee::LevenshteinMatcher.new(@mit).length_delta(isc)
+    assert_equal 347.0, Licensee::LevenshteinMatcher.new(@mit).length_delta(isc)
   end
 
   should "round up potential licenses" do
diff --git a/test/test_licensee_project_file.rb b/test/test_licensee_project_file.rb
index ba59f07..3636a1d 100644
--- a/test/test_licensee_project_file.rb
+++ b/test/test_licensee_project_file.rb
@@ -21,11 +21,15 @@ class TestLicenseeProjectFile < Minitest::Test
   should "know the path" do
     assert_equal "LICENSE", @file.path
   end
-  
+
   should "calculate confidence" do
     assert_equal 100, @file.confidence
   end
 
+  should "parse the attribution" do
+    assert_equal "Copyright (c) 2014 Ben Balter", @file.attribution
+  end
+
   context "license filename scoring" do
 
     EXPECTATIONS = {