On Wednesday, sportsbook software provider Altenar filed antitrust complaints with the European Commission and Britain’s Competition and Markets Authority.

Altenar says Sportradar uses its exclusive control of official live sports data to shut rival suppliers out of the betting market. The deals it cites include the NBA’s.

Under an eight-year deal signed in November 2021, Sportradar is the exclusive worldwide provider of NBA, WNBA and G League data, starting with the 2023-24 season.

Sportradar pays undisclosed annual license fees. The league also got warrants for 3 percent of Sportradar’s Class A shares at one cent a share — licensor and shareholder.

The company called the filings “duplicative, unnecessary” and said it “has and will continue to comply with antitrust and other laws wherever it does business.”

A complaint is not a finding of wrongdoing. But forced access on fair terms would make exclusivity worth less — and the deal has four seasons left after this one.

File photo: NBA commissioner Adam Silver in 2014. Photo by Keith Allison, CC-BY-SA-2.0, resized.

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