Public Knowledge, iFixit ask the Copyright Office to allow people to repair commercial equipment, including soft serve ice cream machines like McDonald's. Section ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. McDonald’s may finally have a fix for its broken ice cream machine epidemic It's a McDonald's phenomenon that has inspired memes, ...

Meredith Rose’s children wanted ice cream on the long drive to her parents’ house for Thanksgiving last year, so she stopped at a McDonald’s and ordered an Oreo McFlurry. A few minutes later, the ...

McDonald’s soft-serve ice cream machines are regularly broken, and it’s not just your perception. When repair vendor and advocate iFixit was filming a video about the topic, it checked tracking map ...

An exemption by the Copyright Office will let franchisees work around restrictions to fix the finicky machines on their own. An exemption by the Copyright Office will ...

Consumer advocacy group Public Knowledge today hailed a decision by the US Copyright Office to “grant an exemption specifically allowing for repair of retail-level ...

The soft-serve machines at McDonald's restaurants are so often out of order that their reliable unreliability have long been the butt of jokes, memes — and now even a rallying cry in this year’s ...

UNDATED (WKRC) - McDonald's may now legally fix its own broken ice cream machines. According to The Verge,third parties may now diagnose and repair commercial ...

A broken ice cream machine is a familiar inconvenience to McDonald's customers. Franchise owners have complained about difficulties fixing the machines, McDonald's itself has poked fun at how often ...