The Academic Council of the UC Academic Senate called for significant revisions to a proposed new university policy on “Research Data and Tangible Research Materials.” The Council characterized the proposed policy as, “overly broad, difficult to enforce, and a potential danger to faculty intellectual property.” Previously, the Berkeley Faculty Association criticized the policy as a solution in search of a problem, and a danger to faculty academic freedom. As the BFA noted, the policy opens with a sweeping assertion of new university rights, “The Regents of the University of California owns all Research Data and Tangible Research Materials,” and goes on to specify how the Regents should manage these newly asserted rights. A potential danger, as the BFA noted, include the possibility that the university could re-use faculty data that it claims to own, dispossessing faculty of their intellectual property. The Academic Council recommended a total rewrite, something “more limited in its scope, perhaps targeted to areas for which there is a clear need and purpose.”