I am an author, and three of my books were published by one of the Big Four publishers who are suing the Internet Archive. I fully support the publishers' comp

I am an author, and three of my books were published by one of the Big Four publishers who are suing the Internet Archive. I fully support the publishers' complaint against the National Emergency Library program. Lending out more copies than you own is the same as making unauthorized copies of copyrighted works, and it should be stopped. But I do not share their opposition to Controlled Digital Lending. I think it is a reasonable system of lending that attempts to achieve parity with lending of physical copies, and I think it has a good chance of being defensible in court. Of course, I know why these publishers oppose CDL. E-book licensing is an income stream they don't want to dry up. And it's quite possible that losing that income stream might mean that they will need to make cutbacks or reduce the number of titles they publish, which could be bad for authors. But I can't see how CDL can be a violation of copyright when lending physical copies under the same terms is not.