The McCain campaign is in a legal tussle with YouTube, which is owned by Google, over the company's decision to pull some McCain ads from the website over copyright issues, according to this article in The New York Times. In one notable case, the McCain campaign ran an ad using footage of Katie Couric talking about sexism in the coverage of Hillary Clinton. The McCain ad, which was applying Couric's comments to coverage of Sarah Palin, was pulled when CBS objected to unauthorized usage of the news footage. The McCain campaign is claiming that snippets of news footage fall within the definition of fair use.

McCain ad "Lipstick," pulled from YouTube after complaints from CBS: