Company: GCL
Filing Date: 2025-07-31
Form Type: 20-F
Source: 0001213900-25-069672
Chunk: 70

Company: GCL Global Holdings Ltd
Filing Date: 2025-07-31
Form: 20-F
Item: Item 4
Chunk 70
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 allow our users to access
third-party online content, we would be an internet intermediary under the POFMA. POFMA empowers any Singapore government minister to
direct the POFMA Office, situated within IMDA that is responsible for the administration of POFMA, to issue certain directions to internet
intermediaries whose service has been used to communicate material that contains or consists of a false statement of fact in Singapore
if the minister is of the opinion that it would be in the public interest to do so. Such directions would include (a) targeted correction
directions, which require the internet intermediary to communicate a correction notice on its service to all end-users in Singapore who
accessed the offending false statement of fact by means of its service after a specified time; and (b) disabling directions, which
require the internet intermediary to disable access by end-users in Singapore to the offending false statement of fact being communicated
on or through its service. Internet intermediaries may be fined or have their access to their online location by Singapore end-users disabled
if they fail to comply with directions issued under POFMA without reasonable excuse.

There are also various other
content regulation laws in Singapore, including:

  (i)      Undesirable Publications Act 1967 (“ UPA ”): The UPA prevents the importation, distribution and reproduction of obscene and objectionable publications. The definition of “publication” is wide, ...  

  (ii)      Foreign Interference (Countermeasures) Act 2021 (“ FICA ”): The FICA is intended to counteract foreign interference in the public interest. Under the FICA, it would be an offence to, inter alia...  
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  (iii)      The Online Safety (Miscellaneous Amendments) Act 2022 (the “ OSA ”): The OSA seeks to amend the Broadcasting Act 1994 to introduce a new Part 10A, which will regulate online communication servi...  
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Regulations on Intellectual Property Rights

The Intellectual Property Office
of Singapore administers the intellectual property legislative framework in Singapore, which includes copyrights, trademarks and patents.
Singapore is a member of the main international conventions regulating intellectual property matters, and the World Trade Organization’s