in 2004, kenneth fair incorporated the talkorigins foundation as a texas 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. the foundation's purposes include funding and maintaining the talkorigins archive and holding copyrights to archive articles, thereby simplifying the process of reprinting and updating those articles. the copyright issue has posed a particular problem since the faqs started off as a small collection with little thought given to copyright but have since mushroomed. in 2005, the foundation was granted tax-exempt status by the irs.