Breaking the Silos: Using AI to Fuse Copyright Law, Academic Knowledge, and Commercial Innovation

Although every year in the scholarly publishing ecosystem is a balancing act of innovation, optimization, and value creation, 2025 is shaping up to be particularly challenging as the pace and scale of change is accelerating more than we’ve ever seen before. There is increasing pressure to provide value to and to meet the incredibly diverse needs of the global research community while maintaining financial health for our own organizations, living our values, and continuing to protect the scholarly record. With AI, open access, integrity, and mistrust frequently dominating the conversation, we are in the midst of an unprecedented shift in both our industry and society as a whole. As always, the SSP community continues to focus on bringing together academics, funders, librarians, publishers, service providers, technologists, researchers and countless others with a communal interest and stake in disseminating scholarly information. We look to the 47th Annual Meeting as an opportunity to continue this tradition and welcome all colleagues and community stakeholders.

Diane Harnish joined Delta Think in 2019 bringing over 30 years of senior-level experience across market, product, and commercial strategies. Diane’s rich expertise incorporates leadership roles within both large and start-up organizations where she has focused on transformative strategies to deliver sustainable and scalable brand impact and business growth. Through her work with books, journals, and a vast range of electronic and digital products and platforms, Diane has gained extensive knowledge across scholarly publishing, STM, and education landscape. During her 16-year tenure with Wolters Kluwer Health, Diane held key positions across Marketing, plus led its largest content portfolio as Vice President and Publisher. While at Primal Pictures, the pioneer of 3D anatomy, she held the positions of Global Commercial Director, as well as General Manager. Diane holds a B.A. in marketing and business management from Millersville University of Pennsylvania.

Roanie Levy, Licensing and Legal Advisor at CCC, combines over 20 years of intellectual property and copyright law expertise with a strong entrepreneurial and technological background. As Access Copyright's former President and CEO, Levy successfully navigated complex legal landscapes while driving innovation and growth. Her deep understanding of technology's impact on the creative industries informs her current focus on the ethical and responsible use of AI. At CCC, she supports initiatives to develop licensing frameworks that balance technological advancement with protecting creators' rights, ensuring that AI technologies are deployed transparently and fairly.

Simone Taylor is Chief, Publishing at the American Psychiatric Association. From a background in scientific research, Simone started her publishing career at Elsevier, and via the National Physical Laboratory, Wiley, and AIP Publishing, has developed considerable international experience in leading adaptive and transformational change. Simone has a passion for helping authors maintain an archivable record of their work in the scientific literature, and is a keen advocate for improving global accessibility to published works. She has served on cross-industry groups for implementing data citation principles and for standardizing data policy, and works to deliver more equitable outcomes in compensation and career advancement for marginalized groups in the workforce.