Publicidad falsa y sus consecuencias en Míchigan

Explicación Simple

Si alguien dice en un anuncio que fabrica algo y en realidad no lo hace, eso es publicidad falsa. También, si alguien promociona tratamientos para enfermedades sexuales de manera engañosa, puede tener problemas legales.

Es como cuando un amigo dice que cocina muy bien, pero en realidad solo calienta comida en el microondas. La gente confiaría en lo que dice, pero si descubre la verdad, se siente engañada.

Ejemplo Práctico

Imagina que Juan tiene una tienda de ropa y dice en su anuncio que es el fabricante de las prendas que vende. Sin embargo, en realidad solo compra la ropa a un mayorista. Si esto se descubre, Juan podría enfrentarse a problemas legales por publicidad falsa.

Penalidades

Las violaciones pueden resultar en un año de prisión o multas de hasta $1,000.

Texto Original del Estatuto (Inglés)

(3) Subsection (1) does not apply to any person, firm, or corporation providing telephone service to subscribers as a public utility. MCL 750.33a - Character or extent of business misrepresentation; penalty Sec. 33a. Any person who states, in an advertisement of his goods, that he is a producer, manufacturer, processor, wholesaler or importer, or that he owns or controls a factory or other source of supply of goods, when such is not the fact, or in any other manner knowingly misrepresents the character, extent, volume or type of his business, is guilty of a misdemeanor. MCL 750.34 - Advertising relating to sexual diseases Sec. 34. A person who advertises in his or her own name or in the name of another person, firm or pretended firm, association, or corporation or pretended corporation, in a newspaper, pamphlet, circular, periodical, or other written or printed paper, or the owner, publisher, or manager of a newspaper or periodical who permits to be published or inserted in a newspaper or periodical owned or controlled by him or her, an advertisement of the treating or curing of venereal diseases, the restoration of “lost manhood” or “lost vitality or vigor”, or advertises in any manner that he or she is a specialist in diseases of the sexual organs, or diseases caused by sexual vice or masturbation, or in any diseases of like cause, or shall advertise in any manner any medicine, drug, compound, appliance, or any means whatever whereby sexual diseases of men or women may be cured or relieved, or miscarriage or abortion produced, is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment for not more than 1 year or a fine of not more than $1,000.00. MCL 750.35 - Immoral advertising; publishing and distributing Sec. 35. Publishing and distributing immoral adverti