Is nightcore illegal?
Is nightcore illegal? Absolutely not. This is not fair use. You are creating a derivative work which is illegal without a license from the copyright owner. It is irrelevant that you make no money from the songs. How is nightcore made? Two Norwegian students, Thomas S. Nilsen and Steffen Ojala Søderholm, formed a duo called Nightcore in 2002. For a high school project, they created a 13-track album by taking existing dance tracks, speeding them up to a throbbing tempo of 160–180 beats per minute, and shifting up the original pitch. What is a nightcore phase? Nightcore is a subgenre...