Gradient shape expands into series of banded shapes upon paste

The past couple of days, I've noticed a disturbing problem with my gradient shapes in Illustrator. Sometimes, when I copy a shape from one document and paste it into another, the gradient expands into a series of banded shapes that are masked by the original shape. What is going on? Is this a bug?

I just tried that here. On both Win 7 and Mac OSX 10.9.-- systems. Illustrator CS5.5, CS6 and CC (I do not yet have 2014). I cannot reproduce this.
Is there anything special about the colors you use -- pantone, spot color, anything?
My knee-jerk would be to go back to what Monika said, and make sure no other programs have hooks into your clipboard.
Sorry I can't be more help.
--OB

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Shape Builder tool not working on shapes in a clipping mask
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