A CC license doesn't give you the right to award Google all the rights it demands in Section 8 of the YouTube TOS. To try to do so violates the CC license, terminating your original agreement. Yeah, breaking a license term makes you liable.
Just to restate it, it is illegal to upload content to YouTube under a CC license because it's instantly an infringement. Of course if you have separate permission (or its yours) that's okay but that's not a CC license, that's a dual-license to you.
This is really common with user-submitted-content sites. Equally common is users not understanding this fact. Or caring.
Google has safe harbour. This is their users actions... But they {c,sh}ould be doing more to interrogate uploaders about the material source and licenses. Instead they just seem happy to let the DMCA do its work.