The franchise owner is the machine owner, and therefore can cause a repair person to become “authorized by the owner”.
The franchise owner may have a contract with McD or Taylor in which they agreed not to make certain repairs, but I’m pretty sure they do not, because otherwise Taylor wouldn’t need to lean on the DMCA to argue that certain repair tools are illegal.
The franchise owner may have a contract with McD or Taylor in which they agreed not to make certain repairs, but I’m pretty sure they do not, because otherwise Taylor wouldn’t need to lean on the DMCA to argue that certain repair tools are illegal.