You get disputes such as how Heaven Is A Place On Earth copied the commercial version of You Give Love A Bad name
(other versions of Bad Name including acoustic and live can sound different from how the album produced version ended up, released as the lead single )
Then you get disputes where it is a different song with the same title
eg I Wanna Hold Your Hand
eg Thinking about you
eg Mirror Mirror
eg Shooting Star
eg Heart of Stone
I could go on
anyway
Love Is A Wonderful Thing by the Isley Brothers
by Michael Bolton
The problem here was though MB happened to write a song with the same title, some people feel the song sounds the same, at least in places, particularly the chorus
The verdict he copied it subconsciously, not intentionally
After all, where do songs really come from when someone starts to write them
And everyone has influences they acknowledge
With Bon Jovi, after the success of Slippery When Wet, when JBJ started writing what became Bad Medicine, the lead song from the new album, he had the same progression as Bad Name, more or less the same words and story
So JBJ plagiarised himself without meaning to do it
The song was rewritten and redone of course
With MB, conjecture was he probably never heard the IB version - it was not a big hit when released, it was not a song played a lot on the radio, and many people say they never heard of it when the dispute came up