Illegality of uploading a Rock Band video to YouTube

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!

The short of this is flag bots are gonna flag.

You could try to do the counter notification stating that the work is transformative since it is a performance of a videogame rather than a blatant upload of the copywritten material. However if memory serves you'd open yourself up to punitive damages. You're better off trying to message the copyright holder and ask for a retraction as the work isn't being distributed as a way of circumventing sales. Google does have a page on copyright strike basics if you're interested.

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I'm curious as to how I would manage to get a hold of the copyright holder as well. That was a thought I'd had before, but I'm not sure how I would get into contact with them.

I managed to find the e-mail address of the copyright holding company. Unfortunately I hadn't noticed but this copyright claim just happens to belong to Universal Music Group (UMG), which I happen to know is infringement crazy when it comes to YouTube material, which crushes my hopes of getting my video back, but I sent an e-mail anyway.

I was also wondering, did I ACTUALLY infringe on the fair use of the material by doing this? I would wager to think not, but I'm not well versed in legal policies, so I could just be misguided/biased.