New US shipments of the Beyonce deluxe 'B'Day' album will not include her remake of Des'ree's song 'I'm Kissing You'.
As previously reported, Des'ree claims that Beyonce included the cover on the album without her permission. Although talks had taken place between Beyonce and Des'ree's people, no agreement had been reached because Des'ree did not want Ms Knowles to change the name of the song or record a video for it. When the album was released in the US, the song did have a different title and a video was made available for it.
Legal action from the Des'ree camp followed last week, hence the announcement this weekend that new pressings of the album will not feature the track - or at least they won't until the current "legal misunderstandings" are rectified. However, Beyonce's people deny reports that copies of the album featuring the track that are still on sale were being pulled. Also that international versions of the album, like the UK version, were changed at the last minute because of the legal action. Non US versions were not, they say, ever going to feature the disputed track.