José Emilio Pacheco and copyleft

Our poets are dying and our copyright is dying. The first thing, in the
case of the Mexican and Cervantes Prize winner José Emilio Pacheco, is a sad
reality. The second, it is already understood, is nothing more than a poetic license before
the paths that some legislative reforms in property are taking
intellectual.

Photography by Gustavo Benitez Via Wikimedia

Like a testimonial tribute to the poet that just
die, I propose the rescue of some verses that connect - it is a saying - with
some of the movements most inclined to the denial of copyright in
Internet, those who postulate the navigation free and unrestricted
works over the network. These currents, not all of them reprehensible, are assimilated in
certain extent to a romantic vocation to anonymity that is echoed
some poets Manuel Machado remembered that until the people sing them
«the couplets are not couplets, to immediately add: «And when
the people sing them, no one knows the author anymore«. Well a long time
Later, José Emilio Pacheco takes up the same idea with these meanings
verses:

(that is what my verses and my
versions).

Possibly you will agree with me.

You who have read and not
he knows me

We will never see each other but we are friends.

If you liked my
verses

It doesn't matter if they are mine/someone else's/nobody's.

Actually the poems
that he read are from you:

You, their author, who invents them at
read them."

Nobody would think, of course, that the poet is telling us
giving away their work, but they reveal a generosity of spirit that well
we can leave a record on the occasion of his death.