Can't copy from illustrator to indesign?

Alright, first the essentials: I'm using CC for all my software and I'm on OSX (10.7.5).
I am doing some vector outlines of photos that already exist. Many of these photos have clipping paths on them which, when I open them in illustrator, seem to show up as paths. Awesome! I can just drop a stroke on there and save myself a bunch of time.
That works fine in illustrator, but if I then if I try to copy/paste the outlines into InDesign, I get an error that says "Illustrator import failed. Scrap contains no visible objects."
Creating the outlines brand new with the pen tool works fine and copies over as usual, but if I can save myself a few hours and use the existing paths, that would sure be helpful. Hopefully this is just a setting somewhere or something that I'm missing. Any ideas? 

You would probably do better to link your Illustrator files into InDesign. It takes a bit longer but on the whole it is a better workflow and if you need to make adjustments you just option double-click on the linked images in InDesign and they open in Illustrator.
Copy-Paste can work sometimes but, as you have discovered, not always.
This applies specially to gradients, which can translate very strangely unless they are expanded inro blends.

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