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A new copyright rule lets McDonald's fix its own broken ice cream machines
What would a McDonald’s be without its temperamental McFlurry machines? We may be closer to finding out.
toggle caption Gene J. Puskar/AP 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 presidential race. A new exemption to a copyright law could pave the way for quicker repairs to the machines, sweetening the McFlurry maker's sour reputation. While the ruling makes it legal for people to repair machines, wrote the guide’s Elizabeth Chamberlain, “it doesn’t allow us to share or distribute the tools necessary to do so.”
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