RealVideo mess exemplifies the headaches with Web copyrights. (Progressive Networks' video server software)(Loose Cables) (Company Business and Marketing)(Column)

Progressive networks has a mess on its hands with RealVideo -- and we don't mean the three half-baked films Spike Lee shot to demonstrate it. (We can only assume that when Spike learned his promotional pieces would stream over plain old telephone service, he figured it would be OK to phone them in.)

Fortunately for Progressive, this problem falls squarely into the sphere where large high-tech companies are best-equipped -- the legal department.

We were amusing ourselves recently with a little domain-name craps, typing http://www.anyword.com into a URL box and seeing what popped up. Even in an era of .com hoarding, throwing snake eyes ("The server does not have a …