I have no problem if you are being paid to do a job. I imagine that I would be paid to do mine.
Where I feel the line is crossed however, is where photographers try to make a good little additional income from the continual sale of photos well after the event. That I feel is inappropriate in the case of disaster. I have no problem with attribution, just the desire of photographers to create arecurring revenue stream from other people misfortune. Just my personal opinion of course.
The increasing democratisation of photography means that the whole issue will become relatively mute in the not-to-distant future as your average Joe Blow decides to sell his shots for 1/100th the price of a professional photographer on a stock photography website, or even for free. This will make it that much harder to monetise the shots anyway as the professional will no longer be able to demand such a high price. (Of course this is not just an issue for disasters, but photography in general - just look at some of the changes that blogging has had on the traditional media.)
A case in point is perhaps all of the amateur footage - both photo and video - that appeared after the Boxing Day earthquake and tsunami.
Cheers Gav
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