Book publishers and the Internet Archive will face off today in a hearing that could determine the future of library ebooks — deciding whether libraries must rely on the often temporary digital licenses that publishers offer or whether they can scan and lend copies of their own tomes. The lawsuit takes aim at the Internet Archive’s response to the pandemic, but its arguments are much broaderPublishers took aim not just at the National Emergency Library, however, but also at the Open Library and the theory of CDL in general. That could threaten other parts of its operation like the Wayback Machine, which preserves websites and has become a vital archival resource