Hi all, I'm hoping some more intellectual or possibly some folks with legal experience can give me some advice/suggestions and information.
Four years ago, I uploaded a YouTube video of a capture card performance of some Expert Pro Drums playing of a song on Rock Band 3, thinking nothing of it. I do not now, and have never had, monetization set up on my account, and as such, have not and will not ever gain any funds of any kind from any of my videos, including the one in question. The issue here is that it was only a video of the game itself, obviously including the audio of the song being played, otherwise it's a little pointless, yet it was removed and they gave me a copyright strike over it. I'm just curious if I actually violated any legal policies here. I stated in the description that I did not own the audio in the video, and that the corresponding credit goes to the artist and the record company associated with them. I would like to think that this classified as "fair use" considering that it was within the video game itself and was part of the game, also considering the fact that I was making no funds, let alone profit from the video in any way.
I would like to know if there is any way I could get my video brought back up by submitting a counter-notification, or if that would be pointless. I look forward to getting some information from people who know more about this than I do!