An amnesty in a shopping mall for people to hand in pirate software/movies that don't work properly and watch a skilled craftsman create a ship from them.
This would raise awareness of copyright infringement and look pretty.
AOL CDs would not be used, although I think there should be a seperate
junk mail junker made somewhere else to highlight that problem.
I just thought of another variation: Build a huge version of Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds using household rubbish (newspaper taxis, Cellophane flowers, tangerine trees).