Copyright Policies

Readability

Among the 500 most-visited websites which use sign-in-wrap agreements in September 2018:[6]

• 70% of agreements had average sentence lengths over 25 words, (where 25 or less is needed for consumer readability)
• median FRE (Flesch Reading Ease) score was 34 (where over 60 is considered readable by consumers)
• median F-K (Flesch-Kincaid) score was 15 years of school (498 of 500 had scores higher than the recommended 8th grade)

Among 260 mass market consumer software license agreements which existed in both 2003 and 2010:[4]

• median and mean Flesch scores were 33 in both years, with a range from 14 to 64 in 2003, and from 15 to 55 in 2010 (where over 60 is considered readable by consumers)
• median number of words rose from 1,152 to 1,354, with range of 33 to 8,406 in 2003, and from 106 to 13,416 in 2010