[Haiku Guy]

"The public performance of Rush's music is not licensed for political purposes and any such use is in breach of public performance licenses and constitutes copyright infringement," reads the statement.

They can ask real nice... But there is no legal requirement that Rush comply, in spite of their assertion here.

[Buckeye McFrog]

What’s more, the SCOTUS (in that infamous Jerry Falwell in the Outhouse case involving Larry Flynt) has granted absolute protection to parody.

So if Rush won’t let Rush play their song, he is perfectly free to hand it over to Paul Shanklin to produce a snot-ripping parody of it.