Chicago (IL) – Trevor Potter, general counsel for the McCain-Palin campaign sent a letter to YouTube chief executive officer Chad Hurley complaining that McCain commercials have been inappropriately removed from the site.

http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/39745/118/

He shouldn't have voted for the DMCA legislation then.

An update in response of McCain's letter....

<< Yesterday, Levine replied with a letter of his own, telling the McCain campaign that his site doesn't play favorites. "We try to be careful not to favor one category of content on our site over others, and to treat all our users fairly, regardless of whether they are an individual, a large corporation, or a candidate for public office," she writes. >>

<< The real problem, Levine says, is all those people who are abusing the DMCA by bombarding YouTube with invalid takedown notices. Like other video posters, she explains, the McCain campaign can seek retractions of "abusive takedown notices" and even file suit against copyright holders who overstep their bounds.

What's more, YouTube would like Senator McCain to beef up the old fair use doctrine, "so that intermediaries like us can rely on this important doctrine with a measure of business certainty."

In short, YouTube believes that it's the victim here. Not John McCain.>>

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/10/15/youtube_responds_to_mccain/