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In general the legal standard which gets applied in such cases is to check if the people are "Beiwerk". Meaning if the persons depicted are not the focus of the picture and more or less background props, then it is fine.



Yeah that’s about the same here.

I can’t, for example, shoot that street scene and then pull your face out and use it as the hero image on my poster for the new aftershave.




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