The inside of a Taylor C709 ice cream machine, as seen from the back with the cover over the electronics removed. (Credit: iFixit) Raising a likely somewhat contentious topic, iFixit and Public ...

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 ...

The federal government wants to make it legal for McDonald’s franchise owners to use a third-party hacking device to fix chronically broken ice cream machines after the fast-food giant was sued ...

The agencies asked the US Copyright Office to extend the right to repair to ‘commercial and industrial equipment.’ The agencies asked the US Copyright Office to ...

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 ...

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 ...

An exemption to a longstanding copyright act allows industrial equipment to be fixed by people not affiliated with the manufacturer. By Hank Sanders McDonald’s ice cream machines, frequently the ...

McDonald’s often maligned, seemingly perennially-broken ice cream machines could soon become a thing of the past. On Oct. 25, the United States Copyright Office ...

Many devices have been made difficult or financially nonviable to repair, whether by design or because of a lack of parts, manuals, or specialty tools. Machines that make ice cream, however, seem to ...