I've gotta disagree with you Rodney. A lawyer can not give you a definitive answer on whether or not somebody will sue you for copyright/trademark infringement.
You're not disagreeing with me, I never said that
A lawyer WILL be able to tell you if something is within your legal rights or if it is a gray area, or they will be able to tell you the likelyhood of you winning a lawsuit against you.
That's why big corporations have to run everything by legal team before it goes to print. The laywers tell them if they are more likely to run afoul of the law or if the should be good based on the lawyers understanding of the laws.
People can sue you over anything, but with a lawyer, you will have someone to help you defend yourself. If you went to a lawyer in the first place, explained your situation and they said that you could probably win a case, then if (or when) you get sued, that same lawyer will have facts and cases behind them to help defend you.
To get back to the original question. If I go by the "what would cafepress do" theme, then they allow it on a case by case basis. They allow a lot of first name celebrity stuff because as another poster said, it could be any "Wade" or any "Martha". When you start adding first and last names, that's when you start running into right to publicity issues in my non-legal opinion
