b boys' images for wikipedia

[mariocaldatojr]

Dear Administrator of Beastieboys.com,
I have a problem. I daily work on italian version of wikipedia (http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia- the most famous encyclopedia), that is one of my favourite hobbies. I've recently written the page of the group (http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beastie_Boys), that has received a great appreciatement from the italian users: infact, in november 2006 it took the star, that indicates that the page is one of the best in the italian version of wikipedia. Unfortunately, it is not perfect: infact, there aren't many images, because to use them you MUST have the permission written from the owner of the image, and I have only a few coming from http://www.nastylittleman.com.
In these months, I've frequently sent a lot of e-mails (for example, to Amazon.com, to Play.com and to BeastieMania.com): only http://www.Beastiemania.com gave me an answer, tellin' me that I have to ask my request to Capitolrecords, that is the owner of BeastieBoys' "material". Indeed, I made my request, but they didn't have much time for me, so they ignored me.
I don't know what to do. At this point, I can only hope in your patience and consideration to my (probably) boring words.
My request is:
-Can I have the permission for the Beasties? If yes, how?
Thank you,
Roberto

[minton]

To use a photo for something like this, you usually need the permission of the owner of the photo (which is typically either the photographer or publisher). This is not always going to be the band or label. Given this, we can't give clearances to use the images you require.

The best way to proceed apart from using the photos provided by NLM is to try writing to the repsective owners of the photos for clearance.

[mariocaldatojr]

Ok. But the problem is only obtaining an answer. If I had the permission of the Beastie Boys to use their photos, could I use each photo of them that I find in internet? Aren't they the owners of the photos that picture them? And a last question: do you have the possibility to contact directly them to do this? I think that my work only make better their image.
P.S. Sorry, the right address is http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beastie_Boys

[minton]

They don't necessarily own all photos of them is what I'm trying to get at. Hence having to contact individual photographers or publishers.

[mariocaldatojr]

Thank you, minton.