In this article, we looked at the problem of the distribution of copyright among several people who participated in the creation of the material and considered the legal basis of Ukraine for copyright of a journalistic work, and also partially considered the US legal system for the protection of the journalist's intellectual property (copyright of a journalist). In order to reach a settlement between the people who involved in the interview process, it would be appropriate to amend Article 13 of the Law on Copyright and Related Rights in order to give it full scope and to indicate that the interview is specifically intended for publication, the joint work of the persons who participated in it, and therefore may be published (including published) without the consent of the co-author. The purpose of this intelligence is to analyze the legal basis of professional journalistic activity in the aspect of copyright for a journalistic work and to formulate proposals for improving the legal system of Ukraine in the field of copyright protection of a journalist. Due to the ambiguity of the prescribed laws, a lot of controversy arises over works that do not contain all the features of a traditional interview or are a symbiosis of interviews and other genres, because one of the participants in the process (journalist or respondent), in his opinion, could have made more efforts to the end result, and therefore should have more rights to use their work. However, within the legal field, any work authored by several persons is considered to be a single whole. Thus, it can be concluded that if the list of copyright objects does not have an interview but meets all the criteria for which the work is covered by copyright, then the interview automatically becomes its object.