It's more complicated than you think. Emily is an award-winning writer based in Durham, North Carolina. She has over a decade of experience covering food and drink for publications including Fortune, ...

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 ...

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 ...

It’s a McDonald’s phenomenon that has inspired memes, apps and even a government inquiry. “If that McFlurry machine is broken, I’m coming through that drive-thru window,” wrote one person under a post ...