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Link to story about the identity of the sailor pictured: http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1649714,00.html

I understand why some might think this is a fair-use image, but it's really not. It's a copyrighted image, and by showing it in a decent image size, and distributing it on more then just the article on the image itself, it's using the image for the benefit of Wikipedia and therefore the original photographer deserves compensation. Just because images are famous doesn't mean that they suddenly become public domain. I think this should be deleted immediately. 74.79.129.183 20:09, 7 August 2007 (UTC) reply

I think you should seriously stop giving so much of a damn and maybe stop being such a drone.

The photo is owned by the photographer, he still has copyright over it. Fooling the public into thinking otherwise is irresponsible. Poorpete 11:38, 15 August 2007 (UTC) reply

It's fair use in Victory over Japan Day, Alfred Eisenstaedt, and V–J day in Times Square, but it's probably not fair use in Kiss. AnonMoos ( talk) —Preceding comment was added at 13:36, 15 February 2008 (UTC) reply

I see that a new version of this file was uploaded which removed the watermark. Since this is a copyrighted image, I would recommend reverting back to the previous version. While WP:IANAL, my guess is that making major changes the image (with the exception of cropping, brightness, etc), could be a Bad Thing. —  MrDolomite •  Talk 16:50, 16 August 2010 (UTC) reply

No, it's not. A modified version of a non-free image is a derivative work of the original non-free image. No Bad Things happen to it. We are not under the obligation to attribute fair-use images in the fashion preferred by the copyright holder, and the way we attribute all images (details on the image description page, sans a watermark on the image) is sufficient. –  Finnusertop ( talk ⋅ contribs) 19:54, 11 September 2016 (UTC) reply