SAMPLE ISSUE: If you’ve bought a copy...

SAMPLE ISSUE: If you’ve bought a copy of Bjork’s new album “Post,” hold on to it--you may have a collector’s item.

That version of the album has now been officially deleted by the Icelandic singer’s British label, One Little Indian, due to a dispute between the company and a little-known British dance label over a sample used by Bjork on one song.

The album will be reissued as soon as possible utilizing an alternative mix of the song that doesn’t employ the sample in question. However, copies already shipped to stores (reportedly 250,000 in the U.S.) will not be recalled.

The sample, used as the rhythmic basis for the song “Positively Maybe,” was taken from “Mass Observation,” a mini-album released last year by London-based performance artist Scanner (a.k.a. Robin Rimbaud).

One Little Indian representatives do not dispute the fact that the sample, consisting of a telephone dial tone and a keyboard line, is featured on the track for more than two minutes. They also admit that Rimbaud and his record company were not told about the use of his work until the week before Bjork’s album was released. Rimbaud was offered a standard fee of about $1,500 for the sample. But Rimbaud demanded instead a full co-writing credit, which could mean as much as $100,000 in royalties from expected worldwide sales.