The entertainment industry exists due to the opportunity to exchange ideas and use a wide range of expressive means in order to control people’s emotional energy. It makes the consumers of media products happier, distracting their attention from concerns and problems. Even though the idea of the entertainment industry is quite clear (to give people emotional release and, if necessary, support), many people related to the industry understand that unique ideas act as an important source of money, and they do their best in order to protect their intellectual property. Speaking about copyright cases, it is necessary to pay attention to Hollywood in the middle of the last century. During that period, Hollywood filmmakers had numerous difficulties when it was necessary to use characters that famous actors of that time had already played. Among the actors who were involved in copyright infringement cases, there were Charlie Chaplin and James M.Cain (Decherney 30). Due to a great number of issues related to the use of plots and characters, the courts of the United States started developing new practices, helping to distinguish between original characters and their look-alikes. Apart from the cases that encouraged the courts of the United States to invent new explanations and thoroughly examine them to prove copyright infringement, there were others that involved too many similarities between movies. Discussing such cases, it is important to remember famous natural horror movies devoted to sharks. Great White , a movie that appeared more than thirty years ago, was destined to become extremely popular in Italy and the United States. Despite the fact that the box office sales revenue was quite large, the movie under consideration was banned from release after a high-profile copyright infringement scandal. The first attempt to prevent the distribution of the given movie was made by Universal Studios prior to its first public presentation in the United States. The representatives of the film studio believed that Great White was very similar to Jaws , a movie that had been released almost six years earlier. Nevertheless, the claim of the film studio was not satisfied. Four weeks later, the studio made an additional attempt to redress an injustice and prevent the misuse of the story told in Jaws, the movie that was based on an eponymously named book. Having reviewed the plots of these two movies and the ways that visual expressions were used, one of the courts in California established that there were numerous similarities between these movies. Apart from the use of the same genre, the characters from these movies were quite similar to each other. Due to the efforts of Universal Pictures, film providers were deprived of an opportunity to use the movie in the United States. It is extremely important to take the case of Great White into account as the latter is often listed among the movies that do not possess any artistic value on their own. Discussing the case of Great White and the inability of its screenplay writers and director to make the movie more unique, many researchers claim that the movie presents a copy of Jaws of questionable quality (Verevis 272). Regarding num