Yes, it can be done!
“The Untitled Project” by photographer Matt Siber features urban scenes with all traces of text stripped away and reconstructed in a separate frame. Siber shot the original images in North America, Europe, and China over the past nine years.
http://siberart.com/projects/untitled-project/
Part of the urban scene is the text and the brands and stuff like hat...
From a legal perspective I understand it, butt from an estatic I don't.
Although. The legal part confusing too, the brand in a streetscene are not the subject, the scene itself is... So why is it a problem to have brandsings or stuff like that in the photo? It's there for everyone to see in the real world.