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Science of Stupid
2014 · TV series · documentary · 30 min episodes · 9 seasons
Created by Richard Hammond
This show combines cold hard science with some of the craziest, most spectacular and painful user generated clips ever recorded. Richard Hammond introduces all manner of mishaps featuring brave, if misguided individuals from around the world and then explains the science behind their failure and humiliation with the use of bespoke animations and super slo-mo cinematography. Every episode features between 50 and 60 clips of misadventure – ordinary folk making extraordinary mistakes. Each week watch stunts involving weightlifting, shooting guns or jumping over cars, that have gone wrong, paused, re-wound, and re-played and analysed to determine exactly what went wrong and why. Richard explains the physics, chemistry and biology at play, then presents forensic details to explain the stupidity that resulted in failure. He’ll look at everything including weight, volume, momentum, combustion and even how the brain operates. This is misadventure explained. This is the Science of Stupid.
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The problem is not the "white labeling" but the copyright infringement itself.
When someone uploads a video to Youtube with the "Standard YouTube License" [1] he grants Youtube (and Youtube only) "a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicenseable and transferable license to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display, and perform the Content in connection with the Service and YouTube's (and its successors' and affiliates') business" but all other rights (and exceptions) given by copyright laws are reserved to the owner of said copyright.
Licensing viral videos is an emerging market nowadays, with companies like storyful [2] and Jukin Media [3] serving as a clearing house of sorts, licensing videos from the copyright owners and sublicensing them to the media outlets.
TV shows like Science of Stupid [4] (from NatGeo) and World's Craziest Fools [5] (among many others) make extensive use of these licensed clips to have enough material for many seasons.
Using an Youtube Video on a TV Show or News without licensing it first (even if properly credited) is for profit copyright infringement, in every sense analogous to counterfeit bags using trademark brands in the flea market.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/static?template=terms&gl=US
[2] http://storyful.com/
[3] https://www.jukinmedia.com/media-partners
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_of_Stupid
[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%27s_Craziest_Fools