DOT DOT DOT COM

Interactive online music site Soundbreak.com announced today that Scott Shrock had been added to its executive staff as VP of Operations & Accounting. Shrock had previously worked as a consulting CFO or Controller for various companies, including Hollywood.com and ecellularphone.com. Shrock will oversee administrative, operational and day-to-day financial activities for the company, as well as serve as the staff expert on "Star Trek: Voyager" cyber-babe Seven of Nine… The MP3 Summit 2000, June 20-21 in San Diego, will also be Webcast on www.mp3summit.com to anyone who wants to join the fun. The two-day expo will showcase the latest technologies in the "digital music space," whatever that means. The summit will feature a variety of events, panels, speakers, music and next-generation technologies. It is open to any interested party, with the exception of copyright lawyers… N.Y.-based hip-hop site Hookt.com announced it will host the official online home of Eminem's alter ego Slim Shady, appropriately named Slimshadyworld.com. The site, which launches this month, will feature chats, trivia contests, online games, interviews, news and 26 weekly "webisodes" of an animated series in which the rapper will provide all the voices. Inside sources say the first Webisode of the animated series will feature the rapper having a hilarious time inside the U.S. legal system… Myplay.com, with assistance from its Gigmaniapartnership, launched Concert Alert, an e-mail service that provides members with personalized concert information on their favorite major and independent label artists. The Concert Alert willlet customers know about their favorite artists' upcoming performances as well as provide them with links to other artist-specific sites. The Concert Alert service successfully combines two of the Internet's most alluring aspects: music and spam… To bolster its position in its pending court case versus the RIAA, Napster hired David Boies, who served as the Justice Department's special counsel in the antitrust case against Microsoft. "This is an obviously important case," said Boies. "People are focusing on the music, but it's a case that raises broader issues, like, how else am I going to find a copy of Sugarloaf's ‘Don't Call Us We'll Call You'?"… As if michael robertson',390,400);">michael robertson',390,400);">Michael Robertson didn't have enough on his mind already, music publishers' clearinghouse (not to be confused with the sweepstakes people) The Harry Fox Agency has filed its own suit against MP3.com. Harry Fox may sue the dot-com for owed mechanical license fees as well as copyright infringement. What makes the suit by Harry Fox really different from that of the RIAA is that the settlement money might actually find its way back to the songwriters.