Commons (disambiguation)

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Commons are shared resources.

Commons may also refer to:

Shared resources

• Common good
• Commons - a general term for shared resources used in political economic theory
• Common good (economics), goods which are rivalrous and non-excludable
• Common land - shared areas of land; has a specific legal meaning in the British Isles
• Global commons - 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, public domain knowledge reproduced in digital formats
• Wikimedia Commons, a project of the Wikimedia Foundation that serves as an online repository of images, sound, and other media files

People

• John R. Commons (1862–1945), economist and labour historian
• Kris Commons (born 1983), Scottish footballer

Places

• Commons, County Down, a townland in County Down, Northern Ireland, in the List of townlands in County Down
• Commons, County Fermanagh, a townland in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland
• Commons, County Tyrone, a townland in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, in the List of townlands of County Tyrone

Politics

• House of Commons, the elected lower houses of the parliaments of the United Kingdom and Canada, colloquially referred to as "the commons".

Other

• Algonquin Commons, a large outdoor shopping center in Algonquin, Illinois, often referred to as "the Commons"
• Asia Commons, a conference
• Commons (road), see Concurrency (road), place where multiple roadways share pavement
• Ithaca Commons, a shopping street in Ithaca, New York

See also

• Common (disambiguation)
• The Common (disambiguation)
• Common Good (disambiguation)
• Commoner (disambiguation)
• Commmons, a Japanese record label
• The Commonlands, area in the game EverQuest 1 and 2