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The season one American Idol winner has backed down from her reported decision to block current Idol contestants from performing her songs, following a blistering attack by Simon Cowell, who publicly criticized her for “ignoring the audience” responsible for her fame.

The controversy came about after Sony BMG spokesman Roger Widynowski confirmed that the “Since U Been Gone” singer had chosen not to license any of her material for other uses. “It has nothing to do with Idol,” he said.

Nonetheless, Cowell was outraged at the apparent snub to the show that launched Clarkson’s career.

“No matter how talented Kelly Clarkson is, she would not be in the position she’s in now without winning this show,” Cowell said Tuesday. “And forget the way she feels about us or the producers or anybody else, or the terrible songwriters she alleges she was with which sold her millions of records.

“It’s the public who bothered to pick up the phone to vote for her,” he said. “If she refuses to give songs to be used on the show, it’s like saying to every person who voted for you, ‘you know what? Thank you. I’m not interested in you anymore.’”

American Idol must obtain permission from owners of song licenses before the music can be used on the show. While many love the exposure, some artists ??? the Beatles, for one ??? like to rigidly control use of their music.

Clarkson, in an interview with The Associated Press last year, said she knows she’ll always be identified as an American Idol, and she has no problems with that.

“That’s where I got my start,” she said. “They always talk about the big first thing that you did. I think the only thing that I do mind is I don’t want people to only focus on that.”

News compiled from Yahoo! News and USA Today