From websites to videos, from software to photos, it protects internet history and more. The Internet ArchiveHe will defend himself in court today. Archive, one of the internet’s most important platforms, was sued by book publishers.

Internet Archive will make an oral defense against publishers, including French publishing giant Hachette, at the hearing, which begins March 21 at 8 p.m. in New York federal court. This case, according to many future of ebooks will determine.

Why was The Internet Archive sued?

While all publishing houses are closing in the first months of the pandemic, Archive is for book lovers.National Emergency Librarytook the initiative.

With this initiative, each e-book was made available to an unlimited number of people for two weeks. But this situation, including Hachette Big names like HarperCollins, John Wiley & Sons and Penguin Random House He was annoyed and decided to take legal action.

But the publishers didn’t just target the National Emergency Library in their lawsuit. Doğdudan focused on the Internet Archive’s CDL system, which digitizes books and presents them as e-books. Unlike other e-books, CDL also adds books licensed to the library by publishers.

Claiming publishers therefore refer to The Internet Archive as “intentional digital piracy on an industrial scaleaccuses. It is alleged that the Archive illegally scans and adds books to its servers, and does not make payments to publishers and authors.

This lawsuit being heard in the US will also be the first legal test in the country for the CDL system. Plaintiffs also filed the CDL as “a paradigm invented far beyond copyrightdefines as “.