is using someones words out of context a crime?

Answer 1

No but it could be slander or libel depending on the situation.

Answer 2

Are you kidding? That is one of the ways those spicy headlines come up, manufactured, or created variations of the boring truths.

Crime, yes to those celebrities whose bodies get cut out of real pictures and affixed to their supposed "new" love interests, with quotes that may be attributed to them.

Yes to the common person, who said something out of context about something completely unrelated or in a fit of anger, and this is used to quote him or her as gospel proof of "insensitivity", "weirdness", "craziness", "malicious intent", etc etc

Before using someones word, you have to ask them for their original intent, frame of mind, inflection on the words as they said it.

If this type of verbal dealings fascinate you, you are probably a good reporter or have the makings of a great lawyer.

Answer 3

Depending on the situation and how the words were warped, it would be considered perjury in a court.

If it's done maliciously or to the detriment of the other person, it's not all so nice either.

Answer 4

in certain instances it could be construrd in a criminal context,usually though it is bad reporting and immoral and misleading especially when done with the intention to mislead and show the other person in a bad light.

Answer 5

It might be, if the use is to gain some profit or other consideration one is not entitled to, or to prove something that isn't true, and the author of the words presses charges..

Answer 6

Doubt it. Newspapers (liberal and conservative) do it all the time to candidates they don't like. So do the candidates themselves when talking, writing, or making speeches about their opposition.

Answer 7

dey say its plagiarism...bt i think it only works wen u copied a very well known lines lyk on a song or a story or a line of a popular figure..dat is if u claim you made them your own.!...lol

Answer 8

it can be if copy it exactly
if u do its called
PLAGARISM