Presidential candidate John McCain accused YouTube for removing his campaign videos. The Republican Senator’s presidential campaign sent a letter to the Google Inc., YouTube’s parent company, to complain about the removal of unnamed videos from the site after receiving take-down notices claiming copyright infringement under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).

McCain’s letter accuses YouTube LCC of removing videos that do not violate the DMCA in several other occasions.

"Overreaching copyright claims have resulted in the removal of noninfringing campaign videos from YouTube, thus silencing political speech," the letter alleged.

McCain asked the video sharing site to make some changes: a human YouTube employee to manually review complaints about videos uploaded by a political campaign, while the process of removal remains the same for the rest of uploaders.

Copyright-guru Larry Lessig labeled McCain’s letter as its name should remain “fantastic letter.” “Bravo to the campaign” he wrote on his blog.

YouTube answered the “fantastic letter” and told McCain that the presidential campaign videos are indeed important to viewers, but not that important.

“While we agree with you that the U.S. Presidential election-related content is invaluable and worthy of the highest level of protection, there is a lot of other content on our global site that our users around the world find to be equally important,” wrote YouTube’s chief counsel Zahavah Levine to McCain’s campaign, San Francisco Business Times reported.

McCain’s proposition to YouTube to perform a substantial legal review of every DMCA take-down notice that it receives was described by the video sharing company as “not viable.”