The 1995 Random House Compact Unabridged Dictionary defines "Plagiarism" as: "use or close imitation of the language and thoughts of another author and the representation of them as one's own original work."
The Italian-made Jaws knock-off was barred in the United States because of an injunction issued by the Honourable David V. Kenyon, Judge of the Federal District Court in Los Angeles. Actually, this film is more of a mash-up of Jaws as well as Jaws 2, which derived out in the United States in 1982 when Jaws 3-D was about to be released. The writing for this movie was extremely similar to the Jaws movies, however there were differences also. For instance the police character was changed to an author. In short this movie wasn't word-for-word copying of the scripts of the Jaws movies.
a. Deliberate whether this injunction was properly issued.
b. Deliberate whether copyright law protects ideas, concepts, or merely the written expression of those ideas.
c. Can you ponder of other movies that are suspiciously similar to other movies? If so, list them as well as explain