Commons The commons is the cultural and natural resources accessible to all members of a society, including natural materials such as air, water, and a habitable Earth. These resources are held in common even when owned privately or publicly. Commons c ...

is a general term for shared resources, typically used in political economic theory. Commons may also refer to:

Shared resources

* Common good (disambiguation) *

Common land Common land is land owned by a person or collectively by a number of persons, over which other persons have certain common rights, such as to allow their livestock to graze upon it, to collect wood, or to cut turf for fuel. A person who has a ...

, shared areas of land; has a specific legal meaning in the British Isles *

Global commons Global commons is a term typically used to describe international, supranational, and global resource domains in which common-pool resources are found. Global commons include the earth's shared natural resources, such as the high oceans, the at ...

, term used for international commons in political economic theory

Computing and Internet

* Apache Commons, repository of reusable Java programming language components * Creative Commons, licensing system for creative works *

Digital commons (economics) The digital commons are a form of commons involving the distribution and communal ownership of informational resources and technology. Resources are typically designed to be used by the community by which they are created. Examples of the digital ...

, a form of commons involving the distribution and communal ownership of informational resources and technology * Digital Commons (Elsevier), a commercial, hosted institutional repository platform owned by RELX Group *

Wikimedia Commons Wikimedia Commons (or simply Commons) is a media repository of free-to-use images, sounds, videos and other media. It is a project of the Wikimedia Foundation. Files from Wikimedia Commons can be used across all of the Wikimedia projects in ...

, a project of the Wikimedia Foundation that serves as an online repository of images, sound, and other media files

Places

Electoral districts

* Commons (ward), Christchurch, England

Northern Ireland townlands

* Commons, County Down, in the

List of townlands in County Down In Ireland, Counties are divided into Civil Parishes and Parishes are further divided into townlands. The following is a list of townlands in County Down, Northern Ireland: __NOTOC__ A Acre McCricket, Aghacullion, Aghandunvarran, Aghavilly ...

* Commons, County Fermanagh, in the List of townlands in County Fermanagh * Commons, County Tyrone, in the List of townlands in County Tyrone

Shopping centers

* Algonquin Commons, a large outdoor shopping center in Algonquin, Illinois, US, often referred to as "the Commons" * Ithaca Commons, a shopping street in Ithaca, New York, US

People

John R. Commons John Rogers Commons (October 13, 1862 – May 11, 1945) was an American institutional economist, Georgist, progressive and labor historian at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Early years John R. Commons was born in Hollansburg, Ohio on ...

(1862–1945), economist and labour historian *

Jamie N Commons James Nicholas Commons (born 22 October 1988) is a British singer and songwriter, based in New Cross, London. Early life and education Commons was born in Bristol, England, but was raised, in part, in Chicago, Illinois, United States. At age ...

(born 1988), British singer and songwriter * Kim Commons (1951–2015), American chess master *

Kris Commons Kristian Arran Commons (born 30 August 1983) is an English-born Scottish professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder. Commons started his career at Stoke City and made his debut in 2000. After four years with the club, he rej ...

(born 1983), Scottish footballer * Michael Commons (born 1939), American scientist

Media

Commmons Commmons is a Japanese record label founded by Japanese musician Ryuichi Sakamoto. Avex Group, Japan's biggest independent record label, is its official parent company. History Commmons was founded in 2006 by Sakamoto with the help of Avex and ...

, a Japanese record label * ''The Commons'' (TV series), a 2020 Australian series on Stan

Political parties

* Commons (Chilean political party) * Commons (Colombian political party)

Other uses

House of Commons The House of Commons is the name for the elected lower house of the bicameral parliaments of the United Kingdom and Canada. In both of these countries, the Commons holds much more legislative power than the nominally upper house of parliament. T ...

, the elected lower houses of the parliaments of the United Kingdom and Canada, colloquially referred to as "the Commons" * Commons, a concurrency road or other place where multiple roadways share pavement