EVERYTHING is copyrighted, by the person(s) who created it. The difference is that some copyright owners can give up the rights to their works by placing them in the Public Domain. Even "paraphrasing" a copyrighted work is a violation of copyright (specifically talking about written or spoken works in this regard, but it does apply in the visual medium as well).
From a legal standpoint though, a bitmap font may not have any ownership for them to opt to give up rights to.
I should further narrow it down to: it the leading view only, and only for the US copyright law (and not necessarily elsewhere) that bitmap fonts aren't copyrightable. My impression is that they didn't want someone to own the bitmap font of making a capital letter "A" as:
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since for a narrow 'A' that needs to go into a 5x3 perspective, there is only so few number of possiblities that make sense, that giving a copyright to one party who could charge license fees or restrict usage would be a disaster to development.
For a true-type like font though, these can be (and are) copyrighted.
Best wishes, Robert
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