The YouTube terms of service state:
"You also hereby grant each user of the Service a non-exclusive license to access your Content through the Service, and to use, reproduce, distribute, display and perform such Content as permitted through the functionality of the Service and under these Terms of Service."
This does become murky, however, if you are embedding content that should not be on YouTube in the first place like TV shows, movies and other similar content that breaks the YouTube copyright rules to begin with, you can run into copyright issues with the actual copyright holder. This is probably so rare it's unheard of, but for a commercial site I'd err on the side of caution. YouTube generally takes the full brunt of these takedowns and handles them quickly and since the embeds are branded, I'd imagine a rights holder would start with them anyway.