Last year, some of the world's biggest music labels jointly launched copyright-infringement lawsuits in Beijing against Baidu and Sohu for offering illegal music downloads.

去年，全球部分最大的音乐公司联合在北京对百度(Baidu)和搜狐提供非法音乐下载的行为提起了侵权诉讼。

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Earlier this year, AD agencies say Sohu started telling them that online ads from other sponsors that carry the Beijing Olympic logo can appear only on Sohu. com.

广告代理商们说，从今年早些时候起，搜狐就开始告知他们，带有北京奥运会徽图案的其他赞助商的网络广告只能在出现在搜狐网站上。

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"The sponsorship for the Beijing Olympics is exclusive," says Chen Luming, Olympic project manager for Sohu, which is traded on the Nasdaq Stock Market.

“北京奥运会的赞助商资格是独家性质的，”搜狐(纳斯达克上市公司)奥运项目经理陈陆明表示。

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In fact, it already apparently has: In August, after Baidu first listed on the Nasdaq exchange, the China Internet Network Information Center said the company enjoyed 38% of the local search market, with Beijing-based portal Sohu coming in second at 19.6%--and Google having a paltry 12.6% of users.

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The Beijing graduate returned to China from the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology to found Sohu.com in the late 1990s.

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