Don't trample on copyright

Sometimes I wonder whether people think through their arguments. W.L. Haynes of West Valley City (Readers' Forum, March 25) suggests that movies with questionable content can be made (so that voyeurs can fulfill their sexual fantasies) but that the copyright protection should be removed so that companies like CleanFlicks can alter them, in accord with the delicate sensibilities of the rest of us. Have we gone down the rabbit hole?

You have the right to speak as you will. You have the right to turn off or walk away from material that you find offensive. You do not have the right to alter someone's intellectual or artistic property simply because you disagree with its message.

That's why the Book of Mormon is protected by copyright.

Christopher Thornblad

Farmington