He used nothing of the original (aside from lyrics), therefore it is fair use. For something to be fair use it has to be transformative from the original work. In the end, Roomie is in the right, and Billie's publisher is actually doing something illegal.
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I’ve seen videos get claimed by bands because of a five second sound bite of howling wind in a completely unrelated indie horror game the person was playing. But I guess that’s fair then

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I wasn't saying it was fair. As a YouTuber I know how unfair the current system is, but these things take time. As you can see, they are trying to introduce a new system to allow creators to see what was claimed, and remove that from their video.
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Yes, I completely agree. YouTube seems to be working on a way to fix this, but it takes time. With their new system, creators will be able to remove claimed parts of the video. Fair Use has a lot of grey areas, which makes it hard for YouTube to define the boundaries.
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, it's the big music companies abusing the broken copyright system. If YouTube were to make a proper, working system, the companies would lose out on huge profits and would either sue them into the ground or pull out of advertising.