Rupert Murdoch has called Google and other search engines “content kleptomaniacs." Now some cash-strapped newspapers want to put legal pressure on news aggregators. In Germany, for instance, politicians are considering a bill to extend copyright protection to excerpts of newspaper articles appearing in search engines’ results, thus enabling publishers to collect payment for them. Giving away the headline and first sentence of an article supposedly dissuades readers from clicking through to the newspaper’s website to read the entire story, the Economist reports.