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“Google doesn’t own the internet, it doesn’t own our creative works, it doesn’t own our expressions of ourselves, the pictures of our families and children, or anything else just because we share it online,” said Ryan Clarkson, attorney for the Accusation. Halimah DeLaine Prado, Google’s chief legal officer, pointed out that the Internet company has been evaluating information from publicly accessible sources for years. “American law permits the use of public information to create new useful uses.”