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[Anonymous]

As a grad student in statistics, I have to present a journal article to the class as part of a course project.  Would there be any potential for copyright infringement?  I am planning to put some equations, summaries of simulations, and other materials into a Power Point presentation and display a computer program (that I wrote) to carry out the methods designed by the authors.  I wrote to one of the authors, and he gave me permission, but I haven't gotten a response from the publisher.  Of note, the journal article is available free to all students at our school on the web.

[Isaac]

It should be possible to use a method described in an underlying
article without infringing the copyright since copyright does
not extend to the method.

It is possible that the method is protectible by patent, but
it seems unlikely that the publisher would have any patent rights.
Assuming that you are able to use the method without copying
copyrightable expression from the article, I would expect that
the author's permission should be enough.