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World's Craziest Fools
2011 · TV series · 28 min episodes · 2 seasons
World's Craziest Fools is a clip show made by Roughcut TV for BBC Three, presented by Mr. T. It showcases clips, sometimes viral, of people making themselves look like "Fools", often by accident. Many clips were from CCTV footage. The videos were shown in different categories such as "Parking Fools", "Drunk Fools", "Criminal Fools", and "Fools jumping off things they shouldn't be jumping off of". As would be expected, some categories see more entries than others, and the categories that feature episode-to-episode are not bound to a predetermined structure.
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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