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A 'final' draft distribution agreement, to which Lyons now points as the contract, was never signed by either of them.

There was some agreement but there was no final, written contract to which the parties affixed their signatures exists. A contract dispute between Ganz, a Canadian toy distributor, which had obtained the right to distribute Barney and Baby Bop 'plush' toys in Canada from Lyons, a United States limited partnership, which owned the intellectual property rights to these products.

In early 1993, Ganz approached Lyons about becoming the Canadian mass-market distributor for Barney and Baby Bop plush. In December of 1994 when the PBS Special Barney Celebrates Childrenwas aired, ' I Love You' was finally sung for the first time in a while, after Warren Publishing and Lyons finally made a settlement. 2 couldn't use the song, because of the lawsuit going on. The 3 major projects at the time, Barney Live! In New York City, Barney's Imagination Island and the album Barney's Favorites Vol. Penney Co (the company and store which had the Barney items at the time) for copyright infringement over the rights and lyrics to the ' I Love You' song. Then 2 years later in 1994, Warren Publishing, the publisher of 'Piggyback Songs', filed a lawsuit and sued Lee Bernstein, Lyons Partnership (The company that owns Barney), Time-Life Inc (The company that released most of Season 1 of Barney on VHS through a mail order service), EMI Records (The company that released Barney's Favorites Vol. Both Bernstein and Lyons made an agreement where Lee Bernstein would get credited and royalties for the rights to the song in all future Barney materials.

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In 1992, Lee Bernstein contacted the Lyons Partnership (the company that owns Barney) after she heard her song ' I Love You' being used on the Barney & Friends TV series.