Bibliographic citations
Reupo, M., (2024). La controversia sobre el uso de la imagen de una rata: ¿Publicidad denigratoria y vulneración al Principio de Adecuación Social? [Trabajo académico, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú]. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12404/27442
Reupo, M., La controversia sobre el uso de la imagen de una rata: ¿Publicidad denigratoria y vulneración al Principio de Adecuación Social? [Trabajo académico]. PE: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú; 2024. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12404/27442
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title = "La controversia sobre el uso de la imagen de una rata: ¿Publicidad denigratoria y vulneración al Principio de Adecuación Social?",
author = "Reupo Alvarez, Magally del Carmen",
publisher = "Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú",
year = "2024"
}
As we know, commercial advertising is used as a fundamental tool for service or product providers to make themselves known in the market and compete in it. To achieve this objective, imagination and creativity are used to attract more people to hire by carrying out campaigns that can have a comic, reflective, dramatic tone, among other characteristics. However, this use of creativity to carry out advertising campaigns has limits, as it cannot refer to the nationality, beliefs of the owners of the company or make “unjustified” use of satire and sarcasm, among other reasons present in the corresponding regulations. Additionally, commercial advertising has another limit related to the fact that advertising cannot encourage illegal actions, discrimination based on race, sex, religion, language or advertise erotic services or products to an audience other than adults. This article seeks to analyze the controversy that fell on the campaign of WIN, a telecommunications company, where a supposedly recreational image of a derogatory rodent, like a “rat”, was used. The two complaining companies indicated at the time that, due to the use of said animal and the phrases that alluded to said animal, the campaign was denigrating advertising and that it also went against the Principle of Social Adequacy. In that sense, applying what is indicated in Legislative Decree 1044, Law for the Repression of Unfair Competition, together with Resolutions issued by the Specialized Chamber on Unfair Competition of Indecopi as well as doctrine, it will be analyzed whether through the WIN advertising campaign, they carried out acts of unfair competition and the Principle of Social Adequacy was violated.
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