First music video featuring fans' illegal use of the act's music

The unofficial music video for Blink-182's (USA) comeback single "Up All Night" (2011) was pieced together using fan-made YouTube videos of the band's music that had been uploaded without their permission. Dubbed "The Blink-182 Film Festival You Didn't Know You Entered" and culled from a search of more than 14,000 videos, the tongue-in-cheek montage predominantly features amateur musicians performing Blink-182 songs and tricks performed on bikes and skateboards. The YouTube usernames of all contributors are displayed at the end of the video. The video (released on 2 August 2011 in partnership with telecommunications corporation AT&T) starts with the following explanation from Blink-182: "To launch our first single in eight years, AT&T helped us search YouTube for every instance of fans using our music without our permission. And then we rewarded them for it. This film is made out of clips from all those videos. Thanks for being a fan."

Rolling Stone magazine labelled the video "silly" but added: "If you [YouTube users] think you're allowed to do whatever you want with their [Blink-182's] copyrighted works, they should be obliged to do the same with yours."

The video had been watched exactly 767,000 times as of 11 December 2013.

An official (and more conventional) "Up All Night" video was also released.

Radiohead (UK) are another band renowned for "rewarding the illegal use of their music", encouraging fans to use peer-to-peer websites that help their music to reach a wider audience.