<human>: Ok so here's what happened. Back in 2008 I had an English assignment for Romeo and Juliet. I added in the "mmm watcha say" audio clip (from Imogen Heap's "Hide and Seek") when Tybalt stabbed Mercutio (I recreated Act 3 Scene 1, if anyone cares). This was before YouTube was cracking down on copyright infringement. When they did start cracking down, I noticed that any copyright infringement was resolved either by YouTube automatically crediting the song artist and linking the iTunes download link (which they did with a separate video of mine), or they would completely remove the entire audio from the entire video (which they did with my Romeo and Juliet video).

I think it's kind of ridiculous because they took the audio away from my 6 1/2 minute video over less than two seconds of a song. I feel like it wasn't even true infringement because it was alluding to a popular cultural reference at the time, but then again I've never been very informed about copyright laws.

Right now I'm more concerned about getting my audio back just so I can download it because I edited the video on my old family computer and we reformatted the hard drive before YouTube took down the audio. I'm not concerned about views or w/e, I just want my audio :(

Do you know how I can go about resolving the copyright issue? Right now YouTube is only giving me the option to replace the full audio with one of their "approved" songs, but I think that's kind of bull.

Can you succinctly summarize the text in 1-3 sentences?
<bot>: YouTube took down the audio for my 6 1/2 minute video over 2 seconds of copyrighted music. How do I get the audio that I made back?